Hi Otto, > You have a good start in collecting merits, and I hope you continue > towards becoming a Maintainer and eventually a Developer, but this is > a process that takes potentially years, not a few weeks. > > I will ensure you have enough permissions to do all packaging work > needed, but you don't need access to all Go packages just yet.
Thanks again for all your support and the time you've spent reviewing my changes. I really appreciate it, as well as your offer to make sure I have the permissions I need. I asked for Go team access on Salsa because, from what I understood from recently approved requests[1][2][3], membership isn't meant only for DDs. It seems to be open to anyone already contributing to the team, or even to people who show they want to start contributing. I'd also like to add a bit of context: although I've been less active for a while, I'm not entirely new to Debian. My DM application was approved in 2016[4], over ten years ago. My key was later removed from the DM keyring during a routine cleanup of inactive keys after the Buster release[5], and I have only myself to blame for that inactivity. Still, I hope it doesn't completely discount my earlier contributions to the project, even though they haven't been continuous. If formally joining the Go team on Salsa isn't possible right now, that's totally fine. My goal is simply to reduce some friction in day-to-day work. For example, at the moment I can't change the assignees or reviewers on the MRs I opened myself. Regards, Tiago. [1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-go/2026/09/msg00040.html [2]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-go/2026/09/msg00166.html [3]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-go/2026/10/msg00003.html [4]: https://bugs.debian.org/821296 [5]: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-keyring/keyring/-/commit/35d191c6 On Sun, 25 Oct 2026 at 13:07, Otto Kekäläinen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > You have a good start in collecting merits, and I hope you continue > towards becoming a Maintainer and eventually a Developer, but this is > a process that takes potentially years, not a few weeks. > > I will ensure you have enough permissions to do all packaging work > needed, but you don't need access to all Go packages just yet. -- Tiago "Myhro" Ilieve Montes Claros, Brazil
