On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 02:26:10PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > Yep, this was before NM was closed indefinitely. From sometime around > early 1999 until mid 2000 (June iirc) NM was closed, as far as I know > no one at all was accepted into Debian during this time. IIRC Wichert > finally got the ball rolling to start accepting new maintainers around > April 2000.
My memory may not be any more reliable, but IIRC Dale Scheetz should take most of the credit for that. The date sounds right; I applied at the end of April 2000 just as the floodgates were opening. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
