Marc Leeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> At some point I needed a number of perl packages that did syntax
> highlighting and that were not available in Debian (yet). Since I don't
> want to install anything on my machine that is not packages, I packaged
> the Perl packages for Debian and used the
At 1144019257 past the epoch, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
> Okay, I'll bite: Any company that hires 50% of its applicants is
> growing damned fast. Certainly faster than is sustainable.
This is a bit of a bad analogy: most companies won't have people working
for them who they haven't hired :)
--
Jon Do
> > As long as my sponsors don't mind uploading the packages and I can use
> > aloith to cooperate with others, I don't feel the need anymore to
> > continue and try again for full DD; though I'm sure I would have
> > contributed more (a number of packages never found a sponsor, so I
> > dropped th
Marc Leeman wrote:
>
> As long as my sponsors don't mind uploading the packages and I can use
> aloith to cooperate with others, I don't feel the need anymore to
> continue and try again for full DD; though I'm sure I would have
> contributed more (a number of packages never found a sponsor, so I
> just trying to contribute to Debian, I am not looking for a
> second job. But currently I feel kept out by a bureaucratic
> and slow procedure.
Same here, I gave up a couple of years ago. Currently I maintain a
number of packages and contribute to others in Debian.
As long as my sponsors don't
I think that one of the issues is that there are a limited number of
people willing to be AMs. I was fortunate enough to get someone who had
just started as AM and was quite responsive. Even so, it took about 10
months from application to completion of the AM report.
In looking at the list
Benjamin Seidenberg wrote:
> The problems is that we're not rejecting 50% of our applicants, but
> they're still in the queue. We have more and more applicants joining the
> queue, but few becoming developers, and *the rest creating a backlog*.
> They're still in the application process, not being
On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:07:37 -0500, Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Debian has an advantage because we don't pay people, but we do have
> other costs associated with membership: Account management, bandwidth
> and CPU resources, time for socialization and education. If 50% of the
> peopl
Joe Wreschnig wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 05:21 +0200, Sven Mueller wrote:
>
>> Apart from that, a few numbers:
>> Since May 15th, 2005 up until March 27th 2006, 152 people applied as new
>> DDs, but only 60 were approved. Since Jan, 2nd 2006, 36 applied but only
>> 15 (9 of them in the first
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 05:21 +0200, Sven Mueller wrote:
> Apart from that, a few numbers:
> Since May 15th, 2005 up until March 27th 2006, 152 people applied as new
> DDs, but only 60 were approved. Since Jan, 2nd 2006, 36 applied but only
> 15 (9 of them in the first week) were approved. Currently
Don Armstrong wrote on 03/04/2006 00:15:
> On Sun, 02 Apr 2006, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
>
>>Please tell me how I could have voted in the two recent votes.
>
> Voting is only a small part of the process anyway; you could have
> participated in the process without being able to vote
Don't get me wro
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