DD

[Felipe Sateler]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 22:50, Alexandre Quessy <alexandre at quessy.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a few questions, as I'm interested becoming a DD too. :)
> (especially interested in audio-video applications and libraries)
>
> 2010/10/25 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>:
>> On Oct 25, 2010, at 4:36 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 04:20:42PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>> So I guess I should first become a DM, I just need DDs to advocate for
>>>> me.  My GPG key is signed by many DDs, I have in the past posted my intro to
>>>> debian-newmaint (I can repost), I read all the required reading.
>>>
>>> If Debian Maintainer is what you want to be then go for that.
>>>
>>> If what you want is to be a Debian Developer - i.e. also the political
>>> aspects of our community, then I see no need to first apply for DM.
>
> I read in the wiki that one should be DM for 6 months before applying
> to be a DD.
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer
> That rule might be loose sometimes, thouh, I guess.

That is not a rule. It is a mere recommendation (it will probably help
your AM). However, I remember somewhere that the NM team intends to
make it a requirement at some point.

Basically, you need to show you have done work in debian before
applying to the NM process.

>
> Also, is it difficult to change one's alioth username? Maybe once we
> are no longer *-guest?
> Does the "-guest" suffix disappear when we become either DM or DD?

When you are a DD you get an alioth username that matches your debian
account. So, my debian mail is fsateler at debian.org, therefore my
alioth id will be fsateler.




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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler