On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Margarita Manterola wrote: > 1) Someone who maintains a certain number of packages, but they are > all sponsored by the same person. This person might be doing a lot of > work, and be knowledgeable about Debian without interacting actively > with anyone else apart from his/her sponsor... > > 2) Someone who does not have a fixed sponsor, but sends mails to > -mentors asking for uploads whenever they need one. This person's > work won't be appreciated by all of his/her sponsors, because they'd > only see one of those packages, and not all the work done... (In this > case, it's even difficult to get an advocate at all) > > Maybe we could ask for a more comprehensive advocation, that includes > what contributions the applicant has made, and why would he/she be > worthy of Debian. > > I don't think that increasing the number of advocates would be the solution.
Given that advocating someone should then happen after he has done many contributions, I don't think it's a real problem. Someone could prepare his wiki page listing all the contributions and ask for advocates on -mentors (or even -newmaint), and I'm sure he will find 2 advocates quite easily. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]