criterias for new developers

[Chris Howells]

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Hi,

On Saturday 23 November 2002 8:10 pm, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> > I have just discovered the debians rules for new project members [1], a=
nd
> > I have to say I sorta like them.
> >
> > [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/join/nm-checklist
>
> This is exactly the kind of joke that must be avoided!  It might
> appeal to legally-minded folks, but for many of us it's just plain
> *painful*.  Like I already mention, their application queues are
> months or years long.

I have to say that I would absolutely hate much of this. It might be OK for=
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people in Germany where there are masses of other developers who you could=
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easily meet up with. But in the UK there's hardly a huge numbers of=20
developers, and I certainly wouldn't have been able to get involved in KDE=
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when I did (I was 17, may have been 16, IIRC) if I'd had to meetup with=20
another developer etc

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