On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:01:35PM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:10:24PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Interessting analysis. Many things that hold up the release can only be > > solved by active and experienced maintainers since the packages are often > > essential. New developers can help maintaining them in cooperation with > > main developer and get the experience after some time and reading of the > > policy, developers reference, lib packaging guide, etc, but having a > > sponsor between them and the upload queue is still better. > > > > Someone should point NMs to difficulty of entering the development > mainstream of FreeBSD or becoming maintainer for the kernel... > IMO it's generally too easy entering in Debian.
Becoming a maintainer of a new driver for the Linux kernel isn't that difficult. You just have to convince a subsystem maintainer to take your driver, which IME isn't very hard, definitely simpler than becoming a DD. Chris
