[Pkg-javascript-devel] Becoming a Debian Maintainer - call for key signer(s)/advocate(s)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Emilien,

On 12-05-03 at 10:24pm, Emilien Klein wrote:
> I've come to the point where I'd like to apply for Debian 
> Maintainership (DM, not [yet] DD).

Great!


> I know I haven't yet done a lot of work inside the JS team, but I hope
> some of you would be willing to:
> - Sign my key 4096R/0A2368F0 of 2011-11-23, so that I have more than
> one DD that has done it [3]. Maybe somebody already has done so when I
> uploaded my first JS package (Jose Luis Rivas?)
> - Maybe even advocate for my DM application [4]!
> 
> Please get in touch with me if you want to help me out with key
> signing, or even advocating for me. Thanks!
>    +Emilien
> 
> P.S.: Hmmm, I'm wondering now whether having met in person is a
> prerequisite for key signing... If so, can I just meet with any Debian
> developer around me, or how does this process go?

I will happily sign your key - as I will the keys of any Free Software 
enthusiast asking politely about it.  Key signing is *not* about the 
quality of your your work, but solely about *identifying* of you.

Personally I require not only that you show me your passport, but that 
we spend some time together to get to know each other a bit - e.g. an 
hour of working on some project together or eating lunch together.  You 
are quite welcome to pass by my home in Mørkøv, Denmark, or to reach me 
at other places when I go travelling.

Each individual choose personally the requirements of trusting 
identification, but the (very!) common approach includes physically 
meeting and presenting a government issued identity paper.  I very 
strongly recommend against asking for key signing in unusual ways, 
especially when you are new to the concept: Follow common practice!

I hesitate more about advocating you, because that is about supporting 
your claims about being skilled technically, and really I feel I know 
you too little yet to judge your skills.

Don't get me wrong: I do not say that your skills are weak, only that I 
cannot really judge if they are, so it would be wrong of me to advocate 
you: There is more to advocating than a Facebook "Like" button :-)

I sincerely hope that those you've worked closely with agree with your 
own judgement of skill level and will advocate you, and that you become 
a Debian Maintainer as you want.


Regards,

 - Jonas

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