Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:32:20PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:01:35PM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Becoming a maintainer of a new driver for the Linux kernel isn't that > > difficult. You just have to convince a subsystem maintainer to take your > > driver, which IME isn't very hard, definitely simpler than becoming a DD. > > About the same as finding a sponsor, then, with about the same ease of > maintenance afterwards (i.e. you still have to run your changes past > someone, not upload them directly).
At the linux day last month a becoming NM approach us at the debian booth. She has some nice software packaged and already went through 3 Sponsors that offered to help and then just went MIA after a month. MIA Sponsors is the other problem of the NM process. MfG Goswin