One of the challenges maintaining the Debian archive kit (dak) is dealing with Debian-specific requirements: fundamentally because there are a lot of them, and they can get quite hairy — yet at the same time, you want to keep them as separate as possible both so dak can be used elsewhere, and just so you [...]
Continuing from where we left off…
The lower bound for me becoming a DD was 8th Feb ‘98 when I applied; for comparison, the upper bound as best I can make out was 23rd Feb, when I would have received this mail through the debian-private list:
Resent-Date: 23 Feb 1998 18:18:57 -0000
From: Martin Schulze <joey@kuolema.Infodrom.North.DE>
To: Debian Private [...]
So, sometime over the past few weeks I clocked up ten years as a Debian developer:
From: Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au>
Subject: Wannabe maintainer.
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 18:35:28 +1000 (EST)
To: new-maintainer@debian.org
Hello world,
I’d like to become a debian maintainer.
I’d like an account on master, and for it to be subscribed to the
debian-private list.
My preferred login on master would [...]