"cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The 'Maintainer' in NM is a misnomer, I understand it is possible to go > through NM as a translator or documentation writer.
I also had replies from Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt and Eddy PetriÅor saying similar things. The first two paragraphs of the NM Corner seem to stress that only maintainers need be developers, then there's an explanation that developers can upload anything so we need to verify technical skills, before the intro finishes by suggesting sponsorship. Looking in more detail, Step 4: Tasks and Skills does say that other contributions are possible, but suggests that these are special cases needing extra agreement from FrontDesk and DAM. I reviewed the last year of "New Maintainers" reports and found 7+2+2+1+1+5+1+4+2+11 = 36 new maintainers, but only one seemed clearly a translator/writer and there were four that I'm not sure about (package teams make it hard to tell sometimes). We've thoroughly queered the pitch now, but how many translators or documenters believed they could go through NM? (There are the other general concerns about NM too, such as an average of 200 days waiting for DAM at present.) > So maybe what we need to do is to rename NM to NC (new contributor) with > subpages detailing the differnet T&S for the different classes of > contributors. How about calling it New Developer if that's what it should be? Thanks, -- MJR/slef Laux nur mia opinio: vidu http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Bv sekvu http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]