On 04/02/14 at 10:27 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > [ moving to -publicity ] > > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 10:54:50PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > In order to help noticing such RFSs, how-can-i-help is now listing them > > (in version 4, uploading a couple minutes ago): > > | New packages waiting for sponsorship (reviews/tests are also useful): > > | - hwinfo - http://bugs.debian.org/733578 - RFS: hwinfo/21.0-1 [ITA] -- Hardware identification system > > Awesome!, thanks Lucas. > > > (and how-can-i-help already lists orphaned, RFA, ITA, RFH packages, bugs tagged > > 'gift', packages removed from testing, and packages going to be removed from > > testing soon). > > I'm since a while convinced that how-can-i-help is a very important > piece of attracting newcomers to contribute to Debian. For that reason, > I think we should promote it *a lot*. On one hand, I think it should be > part of our default installation --- but that's a discussion that we > should have in a different forum and that at some point I plan to start. If we want to go that way, it should probably be rewritten in a language that is more mainstream than Ruby. But that's pretty easy to do anyway. > For this forum (-publicity) the proposal is to promote the installation > and usage of how-can-i-help via a blog post on bits.d.o and/or a (user) > announcement. Lucas, assuming people here are fine with the idea, do you > fancy writing a guest blog post for bits.d.o? As both the author and > DPL, I think that would help promoting the tool more. Yeah, why not. I've added that to my TODO list. But if someone wants to beat me with it, please go ahead. :) > Alternatively or complementary to that, what people here thing about an > announcement via Debian News? No strong opinion on that. Being shy and all, I don't think it's worth it, but well, it depends on what others think. Lucas
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