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Summary

This specification aims to design a new process for accepting new members in the Debian project.

Rationale

The NM process is clearly suboptimal. The DM concept was introducing a new way to contribute. It looks like many DD felt it was wrong to create DM completely disconnected from NM.

Thus this is an attempt to supersede the NM process by a more generic "membership" process which includes the process to become a DD and much more.

We don't want to micro-manage every implementation details but we want to give clear guidelines and setup the basic building blocks required for this improved process.

Use Cases

Design

Common guidelines

at least one year of regular contribution.

Guidelines for developers (DD)

Guidelines for maintainers (DM)

Guidelines for artists

Guidelines for translators

Guidelines for documentation writers

Implementation

Outstanding Issues


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