Liam Proven  

Debian is polling its developers on whether to permit or ban "AI" contributions.

lists.debian.org/debian-devel-

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Rue Mohr  

@lproven debian has a ban on contributions in general, I have a few cool little command line utilities and programs I wanted to contribute and found out it would take a 3 year certification process where I had to travel around the world exchanging usb keys to be allowed to and would only succeed if , after it all, one of them was willing to 'bless' me.

I honestly have no idea how ANY of the packages in debian got there, but I can TOTALLY understand when projects host there own packages.

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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
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@RueNahcMohr @lproven I have contributed several things to Debian without becoming a Debian Maintainer or Developer. It really doesn't require any of the things mentioned.

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Rue Mohr  

@dos @lproven

..... so.... what the truth about it then?

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Liam Proven  

@RueNahcMohr @dos

You were told earlier today, in this thread.

social.gl-como.it/display/3e3c

What more do you want?

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Rue Mohr  

@lproven @dos no no, I was just told that was all gibberish folklore. and I dont think people socially hype-up a package and create a ruccas about it on *mailing lists* to get it inducted into debian.

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Liam Proven  

@RueNahcMohr @dos 😡

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Rue Mohr  

@lproven @dos

ok, what is the last project you helped induct into debian?

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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak  

@RueNahcMohr @lproven Many years ago I got my own unknown project packaged in Debian. All it took (aside of technical work) was to find a sponsor among Debian Developers to review and upload it. I got some feedback, applied it and into Debian it went. I've also contributed several patches to existing packages - the maintainer reviewed them, merged them and they're in Debian. It's really no different to any other respectable project out there, nobody gets full commit rights just because they ask.

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Rue Mohr  

@dos @lproven How did you find the sponsor?

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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak  

@RueNahcMohr @lproven I have uploaded my package to mentors.debian.net/ and stated that I'm seeking one.

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Rue Mohr  

@dos @lproven ah!!! ok, THAT is what I needed to know about!!!!!

I will take a project and work on making it into a debian package, submit it and see what happens!

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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak  

@RueNahcMohr @lproven What you described in your initial post was a path to become a trusted person with direct upload rights to the distribution archive, *not* a requirement to contribute. Debian Maintainers can upload new versions of packages they maintain without having a sponsor, Debian Developers can upload anything. You need to have already contributed for a while in order to become any of them, and I think you'll agree that it's a reasonable requirement.

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Rue Mohr  

@dos @lproven sure, but I'm just a guy with main.c and no interest in certifying myself as a maintainer of the whole debian distribution.

so how did you find a sponsor?

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