*Taketoshi Sano wrote: > Hi, I'm one of the members in Debian JP, > and a self candidate to a maintainer in Debian. > > # I have sent application mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] at May 05 1999. > # I have much curiosity at the processing time to join the Debian project. > # (I waited to join XFree86 as a non-voting member just 11days, 2 years ago) > > I have heard that some self-candidates from Debian JP felt > that the Debian Project rejects them as a maintainer, > because: > > one of them had not receive no answers for long time, > > more than a month is too long enough for ordinary people. > > one of them did not have no English-written certificate, > These complaints are very common on debian-devel, and debian-mentors. Many people from many countries, including the U.S. and in Europe feel that their application is taking too long to process. Some feel, I think, that they are given special bad treatment. I think the answer is always that the people processing the applications are overworked volunteers, usually doing several jobs for Debian. I have seen more that once, people sending email, and thinking perhaps they would never be accepted and now they are accepted and active developers. I think it would be great for Debian JP and Debian to find someone in Japan who can do interviews in Japan and report to the new-maintainer people in Debian proper (in Europe or U.S.) That is to say, it would be good to have a new-maintainer person located in Japan. This could speed up the process and improve communications. By the way, I want to see ruby packaged ! I hear that it is already packaged for Debian JP. I ran the fibonacci test in the source and it really beat perl badly. I even improved the perl version and ruby still won.
-- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre