Hi, On 17.03.2013 00:01, Gergely Nagy wrote: > We have close to two hundred entries in the debian-maintainers-keyring, > that's a respectable number, which reaffirms my recentish change of > heart, that the DM status is a good thing, and while it does not solve > all problems, it is, nevertheless, a useful thing to have.
although I'm deliberately ignoring all the good reasons you provided, JFTR, many people feel obliged to become DM these days before applying as a DD and even many DDs understand the DM concept as a probation to test potential NM candidates. In fact, even the wiki says "Becoming a Debian Developer: You should be a Debian Maintainer for six months before applying to the Debian New Member Process" [1]. That's somewhat different to the original idea of the DM status and not really a direction we should endorse. Thus, the sheer number of DMs is not a really a resilient number per se, although I agree that the DM status itself is a good procedure. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D
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