G'day All, I've drafted two emails that will be sent out at 3 and 6 weeks of an applicant who is not advocated. Comments please!
3 week one, warning -------- Dear <applicant>, On <apply_date> you applied to become a Debian maintainer on the Debian New Maintainer website at http://nm.debian.org/ After 3 weeks of applying, all applicants who have not yet been advocated receive this warning email. Advocation is where a current Debian maintainer believe you have made enough preparations for applying to a maintainer. It is generally reasonably easy to be advocated. For example if you are wanting to build packages for the Debian project then you would probably want to build it and get it checked and uploaded by a sponsor (see http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/sponsor/ for more information) then your sponsor to be your advocate. If you are working on a porting or translation subproject, then someone their should be able to advocate you. After 6 weeks of being in the waiting for advocate queue your application will automatically be deleted from the New Maintainer database. After that time if you then believe you are now prepared for the new maintainer process you are free to reapply. For more information about advocates, see http://www.debian.org/devel/join/nm-advocate - New Maintainer Committee -------- now the 6 week one, your deleted -------- Dear <applicant>, On <apply_date> you applied to become a Debian maintainer on the Debian New Maintainer website at http://nm.debian.org/ After 6 weeks of applying, all applications who have not yet been advocated are deleted. Advocation is where a current Debian maintainer believe you have made enough preparations for applying to a maintainer. It is generally reasonably easy to be advocated. For example if you are wanting to build packages for the Debian project then you would probably want to build it and get it checked and uploaded by a sponsor (see http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/sponsor/ for more information) then your sponsor to be your advocate. If you are working on a porting or translation subproject, then someone their should be able to advocate you. This email is to inform you that your application has now been deleted. For more information about advocates, see http://www.debian.org/devel/join/nm-advocate - New Maintainer Committee -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
