> So you're interested? Excellent! I am interested, so I should draw three adverse factors to your attention. 1. I belong to the class of 6 March 2004. These are the 61 final candidates who since 6 March 2004 have fully completed the New Maintainer tests and have earned final recommendation from everyone involved except the DAM, the latter of whom for inferable but admittedly unexplained reasons has deep-frozen the entire class. Some day the DAM will undoubtedly thaw the class and create Developer accounts, but whether a year from now, a week, or some other length of time is anyone's guess. In the indefinite meantime I would require your sponsorship for upload. 2. Had one actually contributed a patch to dselect, his expression of interest would seem more credible. I have contributed no patch. 3. My December schedule happens to be full. (Pursuing a Ph.D., I have what at Virginia Tech we call a "doctoral qualifying examination" coming up. Preparation for the exam requires my close attention and renders impracticable any immediate dselect activity.) I would not act until the new year. On the other hand, if you have my package debram installed, then you know that I am not some random dselect volunteer. Debram remains orthogonal to dselect, but the point to note is in that the general problem of Debian package selection has received my close, steady development attention for two and a half years. A newcomer to dselect development as such, I am no newcomer to the package-selection problem; and the technical implications of the various kinds of package-dependency interrelationships have long been of significant interest to me. I also happen to use dselect regularly. Dselect would not lack for competent attention under my care. Furthermore, item # 3 above notwithstanding, the broader timing for me happens to be excellent. After two and a half years, I have finally released debram (0.6.0) to sid last week. This was the big upload. The Debian package ramification therein is now complete and fully up to date, covering all of sarge main. I am thus generally ready for a new Debian development project. This mail requires no immediate action, Scott. As my Debian history indicates, I am indeed highly interested and well motivated, but we still have some time to think about this. As mentioned, I am not quite ready to leap in and to start work on the dselect to-do list, anyway. Maybe the way to handle the matter would be first to let me attack an item or two on dselect's to-do list in January and February. If acceptable to you and if I seemed to be making satisfactory progress at that time, you might commit the package to me then. -- Thaddeus H. Black 508 Nellie's Cave Road Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA +1 540 961 0920, t@b-tk.org
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