Be careful of problems created by "hard, fast rules"! I believe that there have been people in the past that became developers after first packaging and maintaining a new package outside of the formal debian organization.
You don't want to create a rule that precludes allowing people with a good performance record from becoming a "new" package developer just because they have not been a member of debian's developer team. On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 03:44:19PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 02:12:48AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo écrivait: [snip] > > * shut down new-maintainer > > problem: don't see how it helps anything > > It doesn't help but we could add some rules in order to go in the > right direction, ie don't allow new maintainer to start with new > packages, but only with orphaned packages. They could only make > new packages after some month of experience with us. [snip]
