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!news.germany.com!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed1.uni2.dk!news.get2net.dk.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Poul-Erik Andreasen User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060501) MIME-Version: 1.0 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> <87u05xf9dd.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> In-Reply-To: <87u05xf9dd.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:58:56 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.237.11.74 X-Complaints-To: abuse-dk@tele2.com X-Trace: news.get2net.dk 1153101537 213.237.11.74 (Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:58:57 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:58:57 CEST Organization: Tele2 Internet Kunde Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5735 Date: 2006-07-17T03:58:56+02:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta wrote: > "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. > 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.