I'll believe it when I see a newly minted developer. It never should have been closed in the first place, so therefore I see the fact that it HAD to be opened as doubt-inspiring as to whether there will ever be a newly minted developer. Until I see a working new-developers mechanism, I see complaints about lack of manpower as rhetorical at best, hypocritical at worst.
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 03:24:29AM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > <snip> > > > First of all, you need to check your numbers. Last I checked there were > > > ~350 official developers in the keyring. Right, so this proves my point in > > > that we should encourage developers to put a priority on frozen and the > > > next release cycle. And please stop refering to stable. That is not my > > > main concern here, and I never brought it into this conversation. > > > > No, that means you should OPEN NEW-DEVELOPERS!!!!!!!!! Jesus! On the one > > hand I hear all of these complaints about not having enough help and the > > other hand is flipping a big 'ol bird at anyone who's offering to help. > > The only way I see new manpower being added to Debian ATM is cloning, and > > I'm kind of hoping nobody in Debian qualifies as sheep or pigs. > > > > New Maintainer is OPEN. They posted a call for applications from currently > sponsored developers last week. This means that people who are currently > helping via the sponorship program are going to get in quite quickly. > IMNHO, this is exactly the right thing to do. People who have shown that > they are willing to contribute, even if it means waiting, have shown they > have what it takes to become a developer. > > -- > -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ > / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ > ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' > `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---' > Sacred cows make the best burgers Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!!!
