On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 09:20:12AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > I can't believe that the QA people can say, with a straight face, > > that they are willing to maintain this pile of dung until someone > > shows up. If we have so many maintainers and there are more at > > the burg's doors piling over each other in order to enter, why > > does the WNPP list keep growing like this? > > Sure there are a number of people at "burg's doors" waiting to become > a Debian Maintainer. I'm one of them. As of today, I've been > awaiting DAM approval now for 155 days, with no end to the wait in > sight. I've already adopted one orphaned package (Jabber) and made > significant improvements to it. However, the 150+ day wait for DAM > approval has deterred me from looking at adopting any more packages.
I have no idea who the AM for Jamin was/is, nor why the long delay. But what I see here is a person willing to work and is willing to put up with whatever the NM process asks for (heck, I sent the message to -devel, which is not even required reading for DDs). Hopefully the DAM will consider^Wread this. > Perhaps a requirement of becoming a Debian Maintainer could be the > adoption of one of the WNPP packages (assuming there are any in line > with the applicants skills). I'd wouldn't impose that upon new people. Requiring a package is something I can agree with (modulo exceptional circumstances), but adopting something in the WNPP list is not. If they do that willingly, sure. > However, the DAM approval process needs serious review. Keeping > anyone in awaiting DAM approval for more than 60 days without any > kind of notice or update is quite frankly rude and unneeded. I agree with that. Marcelo
