Craig, Some cosmetic changes and a couple of spelling error fixes. Otherwise the emails sound fine. I am glad that you have decided to give an additional three weeks after the first warning email.
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:41:30AM +1100, Craig Small wrote: > 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 s/believe/believes/ > preparations for applying to a maintainer. It is generally reasonably easy s/to/to be/ > 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 s/to/could/ > or translation subproject, then someone their should be able to advocate you. s/their/there/ > 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. The above paragraph can probably be rephrased: If you have not found an advocate within six weeks from the date of your application, then your application will be automatically deleted from the New Maintainer database. You may re-apply any time when you believe that you are prepared for the new maintainer process. > > For more information about advocates, see > http://www.debian.org/devel/join/nm-advocate > > - New Maintainer Committee Similar comments for the second email as well. > > -------- > 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 -- Gopal Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux Developer Dept. of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
