On Sat, 14 Oct 2006, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > How about requiring all new NM applicants to join an existing package > maintenance team?
Because we're volunteers, we can't require people to work in specific area if that area is of no interest for them. Of course, given the large number of teams, I bet most NM could have an interest in working in some teams... > Another possibility is to require new applicants to adopt packages which > are O, RFA or join someone as a co-maintainer or become a co-maintainer > for a package that has an RFH out there. Indeed, doing QA work is a good way to learn and I spontaneously did that when I got my Debian account... but the solution to orphaned packages is not forcing NM to adopt them. The set of software we're using today is not the same than the set of software we used 10 years ago, so yes we must remove some orphaned packages. In other cases, the software might still be in use and we should try to find a solution if there's no DD willing to maintain it: here I'm thinking of the "Debian Maintainer" idea thrown out by Anthony Towns (which would let non-DD maintain a single package after a few runs of usual sponsorship). 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]