Well... After a little bit more research I found a good email about this in debian mentors. http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2003/debian-mentors-200307/msg00252.html
Maybe this thread is not needed anymore. Sorry. []'s daniel Em Qua, 2003-10-08 ās 16:25, Daniel Ruoso escreveu: > I think this should be clearly discussed. > Original link at: > http://www.advogato.org/article/716.html > > <QUOTE> > Debian and Democracy > Posted 7 Oct 2003 by exa (Master) > > Two unrelated words. From experience. > > Now, what is the problem with debian? It's because debian claims to be > democratic, but it isn't. It claims to be open, but it isn't open. It > has a "secret" mailing list. And some guys who are in charge never > change, like James Troup who is basically a village idiot. Now, in an > open organization there are no dictators, but in debian there is. James > Troup gets to decide who can get an account all by himself. Project > leader changes, but he doesn't change. He is the administrator of > everything. He is Mr. Debian. > > I'll make a summary for you guys who wonder what debian really is. > > 1. I volunteered to make some packages for debian. 2. I applied for an > account 3. I got into a few flamewars in debian-devel 4. I had so many > packages that it became too time consuming to deal with them without an > account. 5. I waited for the account, it wasn't opened. (Because I must > have pissed off Mr. Debian or one of his buddies) 6. I waited for many > months, and wrote several times that I needed to account to do some > meaningful work 7. Meanwhile James Troup, the idiot elmo of debian, told > me "you need to get 5 sponsors blah blah" I found 4, but they scared out > every 5th one! I was at a later time told that it was a way of rejecting > my application by one of the other idiots. 8. It was 2 years of wait. 9. > Then, some of them tell me "well if you maintain your packages we'll > consider the account". But I didn't back off from my position. I said I > needed an account first. 9. Today these idiots write to me, we reject > your application because you didn't maintain your packages and got into > some flamewars. > > Well, for those who don't know debian lists have always been full of > flamewars and I did apologize to people whom I had arguments with except > a moron called Branden Robinson. I also heavily criticized James Troup > because I thought he wasn't performing his duties. Anyway, it's obvious > that he had a problem with me, and now I have a problem with him because > his action confirms what I had suspected of him. > > So, why am I writing this? To cause these fools to write rebuttals full > of poor rhetoric which are so typical of them? No. It's because I think > the really enthusiastic members of debian project should find ways to > make their project more open and more democratic. I don't want to > contribute to the project any longer, if I had wanted I would have > maintained my packages for the last 1.5 years despite that moron called > elmo. I was frustrated by the issues I've summarized, so I decided to > wait and see when this idiot would reject my application. Then, I could > voice my opinion. > > Well, here it goes. > </QUOTE> > > > P.S.: I'm in NM process for more than 1,5 years. I've requested for > sponsor for packages, but got no answer. The last action was a phone > call that (because of my not-so-good english) was a little pointless, > and then I've got no answer again. I personally sent and email to DAM > asking if I should ask again for sponsor or if should I wait to become a > developer and I got no answer.