Jeremy Stanley left as an exercise for the reader: > 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
i became a DD in 2022, and thought it overall a low-effort process (it wasn't fast by any means, and getting sponsors/endorsers was a kinda unpleasant bit of mendicancy, but humility is endless). the actual application was entirely asynchronous, and just a matter of reading some document and man pages and distilling answers. i urge anyone reading this not to let the ~8 hours required keep them from applying. > 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. the personal appeal of uploading privileges is the ability to work without a dependency on others, but it sounds like that's not a motivator for you. i do think current statistics wouldn't seem to capture contributors like you, despite your (perhaps indirect) impact being DD-comparable. still, this can't scale freely without a bottleneck at DDs. -- nick black -=- https://nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.
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