On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 01:45:42PM -0700, Carl Worth wrote: > I recently noticed that it's not easy to find any information about the > new "Debian Maintainer" position from the debian.org web pages. It's > easy to find this page which talks about joining Debian: > > http://debian.org/devel/join/ > > And from there, after mentioning many other resources, the "New > Maintainer" process for becoming a "Debian Developer" is described here: > > http://debian.org/devel/join/newmaint > > But nothing even mentions that there is another way to join Debian as a > "Debian Maintainer" which happens to have a separate process[*]. > > The only information I managed to find on the DM process lives in a wiki > here: > > http://wiki.debian.org/Maintainers > > But I failed to find any link to this information from either of the > pages I listed above. > > At the very least, I think devel/join should acquire a link to > wiki.debian.org/Maintainers very near the current link to join/newmaint. > > Another option would be to expand the text at the "New Maintainers' > Corner" to describe both the "Debian Maintainer" and "Debian Developer" > roles to help an interested candidate decide which to apply for. This > would require a bit more effort, (particularly since I'm unaware of any > existing text that provides such guidance).
Thanks for suggesting this. Making the Debian Maintainer option more prominent and understandable sounds like a good idea. > Please let me know if there's anything more I can do to help, Since you offered, would you please produce a patch to the website's source code implementing this change? You can find instructions on how to access it at http://www.debian.org/devel/website/using_cvs Thanks again, -- Matt Kraai http://ftbfs.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
