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Re: new maintainers

On Mar 19, Bruce Perens wrote
> I think we need to set some guidelines for accepting new maintainers. I've
> become very reluctant to add another maintainer just because he's packaged
> a game, and I've started to turn people away. 

Hi,

accidently I'm one of the new maintainers who applied for an account
to upload a game ;-) 
Seems that I was one of the lucky ones ;-)
But IMHO a game is a good way to learn about the Debian package system
and policy. Games are usually simple to compile, they don't need any
modifications of passwd, inetd.conf, init.d-scripts, etc. So I thought
a game would be least likely to screw up another system by a stupid
mistake introduced by my packaging. I have to agree with Ioannis that
it takes quite some time to read the policy and the programmer manual
and get comfortable with the packaging tools. All the manuals are for
sure no recommended reading after a long and exhausting day ;-)

My idea was to learn more about packaging with my small game and then
to proceed to more complex tasks. 

I completely fail to see why somebody who applies for packaging up say
glibc is less dangerous than somebody who just wants to upload a game.

Besides I don't have the impression that Debian can afford to turn
people away because the whole distribution is based on some people's
work and I don't think that there are enough maintainers at the moment
to allow to start turning new maintainers away.

Greetings,

				Christian

PS.: Sorry that my first posting on this list is kind of critical 


-- 
Christian Meder, email: christian.meder@utoronto.ca

What's the railroad to me ?
I never go to see
Where it ends.
It fills a few hollows,
And makes banks for the swallows, 
It sets the sand a-blowing,
And the blackberries a-growing.
                      (Henry David Thoreau)