[ Not very smart cross-posting to debian-private and debian-doc, but I am respecting the Cc:. Nothing below is private. ]
* Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-07 09:54]: > Right. No one asked, but this thread ran on a public list so I'm going > to tell you anyway. Here's my summary of experience with the NM > process. > > [sorrow summary snipped] > > Obviously, I won't be participating in the organization in any other > way either. But I hardly think anyone will notice. Something similar (although in the pre-NM era) happened to a friend of mine, Raphael Manfredi, several years ago. He is a Perl guru, and he tried once to become a Debian developer, got rejected, and became completely frustated with the experience. As a humble mortal (albeit a Debian developer), I am ashamed that our organization manages to reject semi-gods like Walsh and Manfredi. Who is next? Larry Wall? Guido van Rossum? Richard Stallman? Just a suggestion to our NM advocates: when you have someone assigned to you, try to learn a bit about him/her before judging his/her responses to those (fairly procedural) checks. You may be before a celebrity. I hope it is not too late to reconsider Norman's application, both on his and our side. -- Rafael Laboissiere
