On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 04:10:36PM +0200, Eray Ozkural wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:03:55PM -0000, Mariusz Przygodzki wrote: > > > > I am convinced the DAM approval is this kind of bureaucratical decision > > which can not improve Debian work's quality of any maintaners (it means > > unofficial maintaners in this case). Personally I have stopped to > > investigate reasons of this situation and rules which are neccesary to > > obtain the DAM approval since I can not treat this procedure seriously. > > > > Does this mean I can never become a maintainer? I believe that I have > demonstrated my knowledge of debian's policy and skills with the packages > that I've done.
You must have heard many times by now that Debian is a volunteer effort, and things are done on a time-available basis. There are often unexpected delays, and there are rarely reasons given for them. My NM application took over a year. During that time, I maintained my packages through sponsors, participated in mailing list discussions, and tracked down and fixed open bugs in packages that I was familiar with, and tried to be generally useful. The only difference now is that I upload my own packages (and thus my own fixes get into the archive more quickly) and maintain a small archive of potato recompiles on people.d.o. You don't need to be a maintainer in order to help Debian. Being a maintainer is not a reward for helping Debian. -- - mdz