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A couple of weeks before they got accepted? Wow! I considered become a DD about 10 years ago, but a friend was going through the process and it took them over

A couple of weeks before they got accepted? Wow! I considered become a DD about 10 years ago, but a friend was going through the process and it took them over a year with at least one restart-from-scratch because the bureaucracy had been lost or something. > Regis NM did start somewhere in 2003. There was a period of him being on hold, in 2006 we did continue the process, which used some time, but most of the delay up to now is, again, my fault. Seems like all the few NMs left in my AM queue do have some huge level of patience available somewhere... https://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2007/08/msg00046.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2007/08/msg00046.ht... I wonder if Debian has improved their process or replaced the ineffective people since. Do they still have the second-class-citizen system (whose name I can't remember offhand)?

rleigh 10y ago
While such delay is frustrating, do bear in mind that these "inefficient" people are entirely unpaid volunteers doing this on their own time and at their own expense. Which is not to say that the process could not be improved, of course. They did introduce the "maintainer" status, which makes it simpler to get some level of privileges, which removed some of the blockers.
opk 10y ago
I went through a similar experience with the NM process some ten years ago except I ended up giving up on the whole thing. After being told I absolutely had to answer a load of questions within a week for a week that happened to be very inconvenient, my answers then got completely ignored. I carried on maintaining the one package until a few years ago when I gave up because nobody would sponsor an upload until the freeze at which point I was being told I had to backport bug fixes to the old release. I actually ended up jumping to FreeBSD before the whole systemd mess hit and I've found it to have a friendlier community.
- BuuQu9hu 10y ago
  These days the questions thing has been replaced by a more streamlined process, basically if you have been contributing for a while you'll be accepted.

rleigh 10y ago

While such delay is frustrating, do bear in mind that these "inefficient" people are entirely unpaid volunteers doing this on their own time and at their own expense. Which is not to say that the process could not be improved, of course. They did introduce the "maintainer" status, which makes it simpler to get some level of privileges, which removed some of the blockers.

opk 10y ago

I went through a similar experience with the NM process some ten years ago except I ended up giving up on the whole thing. After being told I absolutely had to answer a load of questions within a week for a week that happened to be very inconvenient, my answers then got completely ignored. I carried on maintaining the one package until a few years ago when I gave up because nobody would sponsor an upload until the freeze at which point I was being told I had to backport bug fixes to the old release. I actually ended up jumping to FreeBSD before the whole systemd mess hit and I've found it to have a friendlier community.

BuuQu9hu 10y ago
These days the questions thing has been replaced by a more streamlined process, basically if you have been contributing for a while you'll be accepted.