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Re: Debian maintainer

Hi,
>>"skhader" == skhader  <skhader@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

 skhader> Anyway the question I wanted to ask was how can I become a
 skhader> Debian Maintainer ?

        Hmm. Well, http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-start.html
 is the canonical place to start looking at what it would take to
 become a maintainer, and how to creaste a starting package (BTW: I
 personally prefer not to us the helper packages dh_make, and have
 examples people can work off in  http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/rules/).

        The practical aspects that would concern you are: 
 a) proving your identity. This requires either getting photostats of
    government identity papers (passports, drivers licences, etc) and
    faxing them in, or
 b) Getting a gpg key with a signature from a Debian developer.

        Also, the new maintainer team likes to call people, so a phone
 and times when you can be contacted there would be required.

        Unfortunately, the new maintainer process is rather in
 shambles at this point -- we are working on finding and training
 volunteers for the team, but it has yet to be resolved.

        The post from the project leader is below.

        manoj

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As you may have heard or even experienced yourself, Debian's
new-maintainer team is currently not processing requests.

The team wanted to resolve some problems they observed with the way
Debian maintainership is current handled, and decided to close
new-maintainer until these have been fixed.

We are currently working on a new structure for handling new-maintainer
requests, and hope to have this finished as soon as possible. There will
be a proposal on this posted on the debian-devel list in the near
future.
       
Once the new structure is in place new-maintainer will be reopened, and
we will make an announcement.
     
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