From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,4e8c026e9aad828a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.scarlet.biz!news.scarlet.biz.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:38:40 -0500 From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in Debian: I am now an official Debian Developer References: <1152014632.839762.284640@h44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1152041323.938443.182500@l70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 21:38:54 +0200 Message-ID: <87u05xf9dd.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9ZmaAQ5NwRG1NJf4L5P74jpc3bY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.235.236.151 X-Trace: sv3-sejyJN0UnUAabqNFyL4F/WeJsRQzSvGeR5GlYYy5ELU1WBvdD+JIk9+Gz2ngjEREN06qxZYrSWU3VEt!JZQ+q8as+VpXUj6UQMN8a1aFD0yAh+kCoEEoZOPrpMAcc6S4AvWiiZ4T96o0v6ixzukJhlT5zqA= X-Complaints-To: abuse@scarlet.be X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@scarlet.biz X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5488 Date: 2006-07-04T21:38:54+02:00 List-Id: "george" writes: > Brothers in arms, rejoice! > > Ludovic Brenta wrote: >> Subject says it all. >> >> The full process took 35 months since I started packaging gnat in >> Debian. I'm sure glad it is complete at last. Also, this will give me > Wow! > And I though we (Gentoo) were slacking, with mentoring/recruitment > process taking 3-6 month nowadays :). Well, Ok, most of our recruits > have a history (usually upwards of a year) of submissions to our > bugtracking system, but still.. Apparently you cannot beat Debian when > it comes to, um, I don't know, - the process? :) Well yes. Gentoo is growing faster than Debian, and I think that's one reason. No one is paid to process applications, and there are many, and the process is indeed very thorough. Just to give you an idea, the very first step is to have your GPG key signed by two Debian Developers or more. -- Ludovic Brenta.