On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Thierry Laronde wrote: > Citation extraite du developers-references, chapitre new-maintainer : > > A phone number where we can call you. Remember that the new > maintainer team usually calls during evening hours to save on long > distance tolls. Please do not give a work number, unless you are > generally there in the evening. > > La raison est � to save on long distance tolls �. Sachant que ce sont les > responsables de new-maintainers qui appellent, jusqu'� preuve du contraire > la facturation a lieu, suivant le pays appel�, mais en fonction du pays > appelant.
ben oui, c'est des benevoles qui essayent de pas faire trop gonfler leur facture de telephone... Ou est le probleme? > Ceci � rapprocher de cela (message de mai 1999 --- en plus d'avoir un > caract�re de cochon, j'ai une m�moire d'�l�phant ; une b�te, j'vous dis) : > --------------------------------------------------------------- > * To: [email protected] > * Subject: How to become a maintainer > * From: Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 17:27:34 +0900 > > [..] > But there remains BIG problem left. > > According to "developers-reference", you impose us as our > real-life identity a PGP key signed by any well-known signature > or alternatively to send copy of any formal documents certifying > our identity (such as a birth certificate, national ID card, > U.S. Driver's License, etc.), but in Japan there are no national > ID card, especially if it is needed to be written in English. > > Also I have not met any Debian developer in real life and > have not U.S. Driver's License yet. > > And I heared also that after sending e-mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", the staff will make a telephone > call to us, perhaps at deep midnight in Japan, and make conversation > short on substance mainly because of our lack of ability in English. > > These situations of Debian are against internationalization and > prevent foreign people, especially Japanese people, to be Debian > developer. > [..] Effectivement, il est comme toi : il est pas encore developpeur mais deja il hurle au scandale car on va *peut-etre* l'appeler a minuit et on va (comble de l'horreur) lui demander de parler anglais... -- "Si ca sent bon : mange-le, sinon pisse dessus..." [Proverbe chien]
