Hi, On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 03:51:42PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 10:48:03PM +0200, Daniel K. Gebhart wrote: > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Debian Mentors Project > > > The mentors core-team is: > > Christoph Haas (ChrisH) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Ivo Marino (eim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Daniel K. Gebhart (con-fuse) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Christoph Siess (CHS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Uh, as far as I can tell, of the above only Daniel is even in the > n-m queue; Christoph, Ivo and Christoph appear to not be developers, > applicants, or even sponsored maintainers of any packages in the archive. > > ] In longer terms: only registered Debian developers (DD) are allowed to > ] upload packages directly into the official Debian distribution. But > ] becoming a DD is a long and painful way. > > Daniel applied to be a maintainer on 2003-03-18 and was assigned an > application manager nine days ago, according to nm.debian.org. Why are > we giving debian.net addresses to people who don't want to go through > the "pain" of authenticating themselves to Debian, demonstrating they > no what they're doing, and agreeing with Debian's principles? It seems that it's harmless, and its potential usefulness for the sponsors and/or AMs, who /are/ DDs, could warrant a debian.net name, can't it? That no DD had to spend much energy to set this up is only a good thing, isn't it? In short, why pick on this useful initiative? Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl
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