At Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:36:50 -0600, "Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 05:54:31PM +0100, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: >You want to start a flamewar before you are a dd? Thats neat, but I >don't take it. > >> PS: Bah, what is a year of waiting in a human being's life? >I am waiting since quite some time for to confirmation for my new job, >and I think its worth it. You don't loose the year, there are many things >to do, at least thats how I see it. YMMV.
How about answering the (valid) points instead of dismissing them off hand as flamebait? I've been reading debian-newmaintainer-discuss, and found several cases were someone's been put on hold for not answering an email in a couple weeks. Is it not fair to complain when the DAM is going to take a leave of absense for a few weeks without notifying the waiting maintainers? If it takes a year to complete my application, I will quit. I have a number of other projects I'd like to do - Project Gutenberg, GCC, several free software projects of my own. It's not worth hanging around a year for a project to accept me as a volunteer. It's unreasonable to hinder a volunteer from doing work for Debian for a year for no good reason - and having one person as a bottleneck is not a good reason. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
