Hi Steffen, Thanks for the kind note. I just want to correct a small misunderstanding or wrong assumption so that people are not misled about my situation at the moment:
not updated because I was busy, too. And admit it: you are busy as well.
Everyone is.
I cannot truthfully admit this. I am not busy. I am between jobs right now and for the next few months as I move from one continent to the other. I have been working on Open Source 100% of the time for the last 8 weeks or so (since I finished my studies) and I plan to continue to devote all of my time to Open Source until my next job comes around which I expect in a month or two. So the reason I have been pushing hard lately is because right now I have a lot more time and energy to devote to Debian than I have ever had before and likely ever will again for some years. That is why I have been a lot more active lately than before. It is just bad luck that many times the zones of high-availability simply do not overlap enough for sufficient exchange. It isn't the lack of DD status so much as the lack of direction/feedback that seems a slowdown to me. I would hope that in a "normal" mentoring process there is at least one email exchange a month, preferably at least once a week. That is the utopia for which I am striving. Cheers R.
I would like > an acceptance or an idea of what skills (or other criteria) are lacking so > that > I can focus my studies efficiently and become a DD as soon as practicable: > but I need some feedback for this to work. Should I get a reassignment? > I don't want to waste too much of anyone's time. In the meantime I have > joined debian-med and debian-science in order to continue to get help > and advice and sponsorship for my packages. If you have read the debian policy document and its associates, then the best you can do is what you are actually doing: continue packaging as where your interest and daylife goes and get feedback from the two very friendly partially overlapping sub-communities you have chosen. The problem that as an ambitous DD aspirant I have ran into is that I have ended up with so many packages over the years that it became a real burden with the the sponsors. And it is not our style to impose work on others. The answer is group management of packages i.e. in Debian-Med. There may be new developers that happen to work on pieces at the very core of Debian who make the journey at a faster pace since they are so well known to the people at admnistrative posts. Though I have no data on how well the popularity-contest entries of maintained packages anti-correlate with pre-DD waiting time. For us at the periphery of Debian the rule can only be to relax and think with your heart of something else. Rest assured that the vast majority of your pals that to you see contributing to the application-oriented subcommunities are non-DDs. And those guys that press (or do not press) the button for your acceptance are just too busy and do not mean it any badly. The world should be different, admittedly. We have to wait for our acceptance to contribute to respective improvements, though. Cheers, Steffen (waiting for DAM approval ... hint ... hint...)
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