On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:10:24PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Interessting analysis. Many things that hold up the release can only be > solved by active and experienced maintainers since the packages are often > essential. New developers can help maintaining them in cooperation with > main developer and get the experience after some time and reading of the > policy, developers reference, lib packaging guide, etc, but having a > sponsor between them and the upload queue is still better. >
Someone should point NMs to difficulty of entering the development mainstream of FreeBSD or becoming maintainer for the kernel... IMO it's generally too easy entering in Debian. -- Francesco P. Lovergine