Bernd Zeimetz <be...@bzed.de> writes: > Micah Anderson wrote: >> All of this is just fun wingnut ramblings, but I think serves to >> illustrate that the artificial barrier imposed by the arduous NM >> process is not that significant of a difficulty for getting inside >> Debian and we cannot use this as mechanism for making Debian "secure". > > The NM process is needed to ensure that new DDs know enough about Debian > to maintain their packages properly. The NM process can't ensure that no > evil person passes it (although it makes sure, that evil plans will need > a lot of time and knowledge), but at least it tries to ensure that new > DDs have a common knowledge, which is needed definitely.
It also requires that an applicant demonstrate some degree of long-term committment to wanting to be part of Debian. I actually think this is useful. I don't think the way that we accidentally do that now should be maintained in its specific details (making the process a lot more interesting and with more milestones along the way sounds great to me, for instance), but I don't think reducing the total time from fresh applicant to DD all that far is that wonderful of a primary goal. I'd much rather give people additional capabilities along the way but keep the time to final DD status at around six months to a year. I'm not sure there's that much gained in making membership much faster than that. I say this as someone who spent seven months in NM. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
