On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 02:38:34PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Chris Cheney wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:41:45PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Chris Cheney wrote: > > > > > > Not to toot my own horn, but I was accepted in under one week. I took 2 > > > weeks > > > to read up on everything, then after I sent in my app, less than a week > > > later > > > I was accepted. > > > > > Yep, this was before NM was closed indefinitely. From sometime around > > early 1999 until mid 2000 (June iirc) NM was closed, as far as I know > > no one at all was accepted into Debian during this time. IIRC Wichert > > finally got the ball rolling to start accepting new maintainers around > > April 2000. I don't know the current average time for a NM to get > > through the queue but I would guess at it being around 3-4 months. > > My mail was not an attempt to compare pre-NM acceptance times to after. It > was to show that those who do work, get accepted.
I guess, eventualy.... I maintain 10 sources in main - none have RC bugs. Waiting since, well, about Dec 2001... Interresting... >From my experience, you last sentance is true only if you do not make any mistakes. For example, when I applied I took over some O: packages - most were O: for a long time (in Dec. 2001). Note that a lot of them were broken at that time and upstream, well, :) eg. yiff I updated it, but not knowing much about sonames (eg. when to change them to what when upstream doesn't have a clue about them and just sets them to version number), I messed up packaging of yiff. Few RC bugs later, I learnt about sonames and fixed the bug. But the damage was done - AM told me to learn more about sonames! *BUT* I already learnt all about sonames from the mistakes I've done that were reported to me. About a year later, I was finally approved by AM (I guess both of us dropped the ball on that). So what is the moral of the story for NM? DO NOT PACKAGE A LIBRARY IF YOU DO NOT KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT SONAMES! You can *after* you become a DD and screw up then. But not before. Anyway, waiting for DAM for some months now. I guess it has been 4-5 months now. I asked him on IRC when he might get arround to my application, but he just said when he has time... But I have no complains.. well, maybe except that every week or two the parties responsible for the applicant (eg, AM or DAM) should send out a status reports or something. That way there would be less stagnation in the entire process. Why? Because people want to do least amount of work to do their job. Just a suggestion. - Adam
