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> Becoming a Debian Developer involves a lengthy process of showing commitment to their values and requires meeting another member in person to show identification to be added to their cryptographic web of trust

At the very least. More often people receive mentoring for months and meet in person.

> this explosion of dependencies makes it increasingly difficult for package maintainers to provide effective review

It makes packaging extremely time consuming and that's why a lot of things in Go and javascript are not packaged.

The project cares about security and compliance to licensing.



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