On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 11:05:04AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Thursday 21 June 2007 19:22, Anthony Towns wrote: > > The NM process is about making new DDs -- who participate fully in > > the project, and understand and agree with its goals. Not every useful > > contributor to Debian actually wants that status -- Matthew Garrett's one > > example of a former DD who'd like to contribute to Debian without being > > a DD, and this is a way of making that more effective. Likewise there are > > plenty of people who'd like to make a small contribution to Debian without > > having to obtain the level of knowledge and experience we expect of DDs.
> I'm not really convinced that we should adapt our processes to an existing DD > who gives up his rights to upload, and then later would like to get upload > rights again. Not for the benefit of that developer, but for our benefit. I have no fear at all of Matthew Garrett doing an incompetent job of preparing packages; why should we make it hard for *Debian* to take advantage of his contributions? (Repeat this argument x times for all the NMs we currently have that are already being trusted to prepare their own packages for sponsorship, with no real review by the sponsors) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]