On Sunday 03 December 2000 22:09, Neal H Walfield wrote: > I am applying to become a Debian maintainer. At the moment, I am not > interested in packaging anything. Period. I do not have the time and > would rather exert myself elsewhere. Thus, should I not be made a Debian > maintainer? Will you recommend my rejection?
My recommendation means nothing for you, but I am not sure if you are sure why you want to become Debian maintaner. > There is a lot more about debian then making packages. There is > documentation, internationalization and debian internal projects such as > dpkg, apt, the installer, boot floppies and others. These take more than > a single person to code up and a list ends up as the maintainer of the > resulting packages. > > How about the maintenance of the servers, is that not a worthy job? Or > perhaps PR? The webpage? > > And finally, how about the ports? Are the Debian/BSD port or the > Debian/Hurd port not in need of Debian people? You have listed almost everything but you forgot lots of above works are performed by regular maintaners. If I remember I wrote about Debian accounts, in other word about a some technical aspect which is very useful if you want to upload packages. Don't treat a Debian account like a diploma or laurels. > The thing that bothers me the _most_ is that all of the tasks that I > have listed take _way_ more effort than maintaining some package of > the packages in our archive: many are updated a few times a year, if > that. So it means you are _very_ experienced in non-packaging and packaging Debian work if you have such consolidated opinion. I am sorry but personally I can not say what kind of Debian effort is bigger or more valuable. -- Mariusz Przygodzki | Good judgement comes from experience. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Experience comes from bad judgement. http://www.dune.home.pl | GPG KeyID: 0x42FAD771 GPG Fingerprint: 1990 F07B FFB4 BE0B FF26 10C2 BE2B 965C 42FA D771
