> Did you explain this to new-maintainer ? Do you still have your old PGP > key ?
I did explain that. Since nobody answered, I have no idea if it's been received (except for my mail not bouncing, that is). I don't have my old PGP key. In fact, if you look at the keyservers, you'll see that I've not been good at that (can you say inexperience on the subject?). I now have a GNU PG key and a physical copy of it, so I shouldn't have to change keys again I hope... > With the way new maintainer is handled currently, you will have to wait > many monthes before getting approved. :-( So what can I do? Until a few months ago, I could see an [EMAIL PROTECTED] and had hopes to at least be able to upload to master. But it's gone. Can one of the maintainers approvers reply privately to this email and tell me how I can speedup the process (it took a few days in 1996 :-))? I will call him/her, that's no problem. Thanks! Debian has some big advantages over any other distribution I know of that make me want to contribute to Debian rather than another one. But months for getting a membership, isn't that risking that new volunteers will turn to Mandrake or Stampede for example, and work to put the nice things that Debian has (best package management, all the tools to manage alternatives / rc / cron / MIME / etc.) in them? I would even think that to some extent, one can say that any Debian member should be able to approve another candidate. After all, if you passed the test, you should have a good understanding of what it means to be a Debian member. If so, you should be able to approve another one. If not, then whoever approved you shouldn't have. No? [This is why debian-policy is CC:ed now.] If any member can approve a new member, then processing new maintainers should be really fast, and Debian won't loose great people that want to volunteer. You can even track who approved whom and prevent people w/ bad judgment to approve other ones, etc... I am sure there are ways to move the approval time from months to days. > BTW, do you really think that psptools is still of any use with today's > tools ? It provides the only way I know to simply take advantage of printer's capacities like stapling, binding etc. PPD files are really good for that. I would definitely consider writing a printing panel for KDE or Gnome that handle PPD files just for this. Yves.
