On Sat, 08 Apr 2006, Benj. Mako Hill wrote: > <quote who="Don Armstrong" date="Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 01:50:50PM -0700"> > > As a final note, the templates are just that, templates. An AM is > > relatively free to tailor the process to the job that the applicant is > > actually performing. This is a bit more time consuming for the AM, but > > it's ideal for applicants who are involved in non-traditional roles in > > Debian. > > AMs, the DAM and other people in the project are more hesitant to > grant developership to people with non-standard forms of > contributions. Sometimes, it's simply harder to test for these > because there aren't templates or even qualified AMs!
Sure; it's basically a case of no one having yet figured out exactly how to do it. I don't think there's any way to make that easier until we have more people who fit into those positions wanting to become DDs. Presumably some of the more senior AMs will have a better idea of how to make sure that these people are qualified to fulfill the position that they want to fulfill. The first few applicants going through the process in a new role will always take a bit longer, but they'll be helping develop the process too, so I'd hope that they'd be reasonably accepting of that. > Don: You were extremely active in Debian-Legal before becoming a > developer. Were you tested or evaluated on those contributions? If > not, why not? Not to any great extent, no. I was doing package maintenance then (and still am) so that's what I was tested on primarily. [I was asked to assist with a few DFSG/FOSS understanding issues, but I didn't think of that as part of the NM process.] Of course, since that was part of my contribution to Debian at that point in time, my AM and later the DAM (heh) would have looked at what I was doing there too. Don Armstrong -- THERE IS NO GRAVITY THE WORLD SUCKS -- Vietnam War Penquin Lighter http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/clippings/vietnam_there_is_no_gravity.jpg http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
