On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 11:05:04AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: >On Thursday 21 June 2007 19:22, Anthony Towns wrote: >> The NM process is about making new DDs -- who participate fully in >> the project, and understand and agree with its goals. Not every useful >> contributor to Debian actually wants that status -- Matthew Garrett's one >> example of a former DD who'd like to contribute to Debian without being >> a DD, and this is a way of making that more effective. Likewise there are >> plenty of people who'd like to make a small contribution to Debian without >> having to obtain the level of knowledge and experience we expect of DDs. > >I'm not really convinced that we should adapt our processes to an existing DD >who gives up his rights to upload, and then later would like to get upload >rights again. If existing DD's want to upload packages, I'd recommend to them >not giving up their DD status in the first place, or use the emeritus >procedure to get back in. Why do we need this procedure to solve that?
I think I agree with you. I can see some use in the DM proposal for people on the way in to Debian, but not for those on the way out. I'd much rather see a clean break for those people leaving - if people have decided they no longer want to be DD then why continue to develop for Debian? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
