On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:48:53AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > Danie, > > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Danie Roux wrote: > > > I would love to have an advocate. Being in Pretoria, South Africa that's not > > going to be easy though. > > A developer does not have to be physically proximate to you to be your > advocate; in fact, it doesn't have to be your advocate who signs your key, > either. The advocate merely ... advocates for you to the NM committee, he is > someone who will speak on your behalf in recommending you for maintainership. > So in many cases, it may be better to seek a debian developer who knows your > work and can evaluate your packages -- often your sponsor is best suited to > be your advocate.
After I have a sponsor, and I've shown that I can be a developer/maintainer, I'll apply. 'Till then I need to get my package into Debian :-) -- Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix
