On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Chris Cheney wrote: Not to toot my own horn, but I was accepted in under one week. I took 2 weeks to read up on everything, then after I sent in my app, less than a week later I was accepted.
The shortness can probably be attributed to me actually doing work. This was during the libc5->libc6 transition, and I was recompiling 3-4 packages each day, and posting nightly summaries on -devel(this list). I wasn't hounding DSA to accept me, I was just showing what work I was doing. Others on the list, however, were clamouring for my acceptance. Of course, after I was accepted, I stopped doing 3-4 recompiles a day; I don't know what that means. (I was accepted in January, 1998). ps: A prospective developer should let his/her actions speak for themself. Countiously hounding those in charge, or only doing one little bit(a minor inconsequential package), and then demanding your *right* to join debian, *will* get you ignored. pps: If you are expecting delays, don't get frustrated. Continue to do work. Do more work. Proof to everyone that you can be a valuable member to the project. If you get delayed, and then go and stomp off, pout, and say I quit, we will ignore you. ppps: Being a debian developer is a thankless job. You seldom get positive responses from the users who must interact with your work. If you can't even take the heat, or lack of response, before becoming a developer, then you should perhaps look elsewhere.
