On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:29:15PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > That way there would be no need to regard this delegate as a "junior > partner" to Mako, and we'd have a representative who had gone through > the stages of the NM process, pledged to uphold the Social Contract, and > who is formally accountable to the rest of the Project.
OK, this is OT, but this *is* legal so I'll take leave to be a bit more nitpicky than usual: Not everyone that is a Debian developer has gone through the NM process or pleged to uphold the social contract. I, for instance, became a Debian developer after sending an e-mail to Bruce and waiting for him to create my account. That was back before either new maintainer or the social contract existed. And there were already a considerable number of developers in there before me (though how many are still around, I don't know). Back then, nobody verified your PGP keys either. I can't actually recall how my key got in the ring. Something tells me it wasn't Bruce, because I was able to upload packages to chiark before my account got created. (Or maybe uploads weren't signed back then.) <blackhelicopters> Therefore, it is possible that we have Debian developers on our keyring that are have been using fake identities since 1995 and totally disagree with the Social Contract. </blackhelicopters> For the record, I do pledge to uphold the social contract, and my current key does have signatures from other developers on it :-) -- John
