* Colin Watson | On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 02:19:29AM -0500, Alexander Winston wrote: | > On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 23:17, David Starner wrote: | > > If you were a Debian developer, you could fix this by adopting or at least | > > NMUing important programs that were unmaintained. Is it easier to stand | > > on the outside and complain then actually work to making it better? | > | > But it may take many months or even years before he reaches official | > Debian developer status... Could anything be done about that, perhaps? | | He *was* a developer; he resigned some time ago. No doubt he could be | fast-tracked back in if he were interested, since he's already | demonstrated the skills etc.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200305/msg00006.html : The 'emeritus' state is for people who voluntarily retire. Their : accounts are locked and their keys are moved to a separate keyring. : Their email will continue to work for 6 months[a]. They lose vote, : upload and -private reading privileges. [...] : People in 'emeritus' or even 'disabled' can come back at anytime : without going through new-maintainer; provided they can prove they : control the key(s) associated with the account. -- Tollef Fog Heen ,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-
