NM & inactive maintainers, mips, sbuild

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Ran after various NMs for most of the day, and later helped James lock the
accounts of various inactive maintainers and people who have retired from
the project.  Current statistics: <tt>There are 886 developers as of Tue,
20 Jan 2004 01:57:56 +0000</tt>.  It's amazing how much time I waste^Wspend
on active maintainers.  On the bright side, some really good applicants
have been <a href =
"http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2004/debian-project-200401/msg00044.html">accepted</a>
last week. In the background, I'm compiling various packages on my new MIPS
box with <a href = "http://packages.debian.org/sbuild">sbuild</a>.  I don't
actually upload them, I mostly do it for the fun, to test the stability of
my machine and to learn how sbuild works. (In order to contribute something
useful, I'm also starting to build some packages which haven't built on
mips before to see if they work.  For example, gnustep-base builds just
fine after changing some Build-Depends.)

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