Re: Ada in Debian: I am now an official Debian Developer

[Poul-Erik Andreasen <poulerik@pea.dk>]

Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> "george" <gshapovalov@gmail.com> 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.
> 
Congratiultion for me too.

I want you to know that it actually was your work wich made me change my 
preferred distro to Debian. And a have no regrets at all:-)

Greetings

Poul-Erik Andreasen.