Re: Re : New maintener proposal
Thierry Laronde writes:
> > The procedure can be divided in a couple of stages:
> > 1. initial contact
I think he's missing step 0, "wait".
> Even for somebody like me, not even a debian maintener, the problems
> are obvious. And it's clear that the problem is not related to the
> new mainteners.
Absolutely. Most developers I have had contact with have been very
friendly and helpful. Other people just leave mail unanswered for
months.
> A maintener will have an address like me@maintener.debian.org. This
> way, he would not be psychologically encouraged to break the
> upstream version just in order to prove he is a 'developer'.
*huge evil grin* You are so right....
Well, i'd be for that proposal. Anyone else?
> Asking to join Debian will be, necessarily : becoming first a
> maintener, and *choosing a package in the orphaned ones* ( this list
> will be huge, if every 'maintener not maintening' is pushed out ).
OK. I've had a sponsored NMU done for me already, because of a smiliar
situation...
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Decklin
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