On 2024-12-02 19:09:33 +0200 (+0200), Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > (non-subscriber; please keep me in CC whenever reply to this) > > ma 2.12.2024 klo 18.33 Andreas Tille (ti...@debian.org) kirjoitti: > > Attracting newcomers [...] > From personal experience, jumping through hoops to become a DD, or > even just a DM, in a situation where I only maintain a handful of > packages and randomly contribute patches to other packages (or > overhaul the packaging before handing the package over to its next > maintainer) simply hasn't been worth the troubles. [...]
I'll just say you're not alone. I've been around the Debian community since pre-Y2K and, if I'd cared, could probably have been a DD rather easily when the requirements were little more than say 'hi' and have enough DD signatures on your key. I've been maintaining packaged software in Debian, albeit minimally, through an uploading sponsor for about two decades. These days I'm on the board of directors for SPI, but I'm still not a DD (nor even a DM). Would I bother to go through NM now if the process were more simplified/streamlined? Maybe, but probably not. As you noted, priorities matter and it's entirely possible to be involved in Debian without that (depending on what exactly you want to do of course). There's quite a lot that doesn't require upload permissions in the archive, and also quite a lot of amazing people with upload permissions who are happy to help on the occasions it's needed. -- Jeremy Stanley
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