Francesco Paolo Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:10:24PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > Interessting analysis. Many things that hold up the release can only be
> > solved by active and experienced maintainers since the packages are often
> > essential. New developers can help maintaining them in cooperation with
> > main developer and get the experience after some time and reading of the
> > policy, developers reference, lib packaging guide, etc, but having a
> > sponsor between them and the upload queue is still better.
> >
>
> Someone should point NMs to difficulty of entering the development
> mainstream of FreeBSD or becoming maintainer for the kernel...
> IMO it's generally too easy entering in Debian.
You can get access to the gcc cvs simply by showing your ability to
work on gcc within a few month. The time it takes to get access
depends on the amount and quality of your work (and paying 1 Euro for
some stickers while signing over your copyright to the FSF).
Thats how it should be.
MfG
Goswin
