On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:47:09PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 02:19:17PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit a écrit : > > > The mail you are answering to was against forums, not really against > > the BTS btw. > > Bonsoir Pierre, > > I have lurked a bit on the ubuntu forums, and found "intersting" > threads. For instance, some persons wrote about doing a sort of medical > Ubuntu project, and then realised that debian-med was alive, and wrote > at the end of the thread that being less people with less experience, > they could not do better than us. > > The conclusion I took after reading this is that there are people (often > young) eager to find a niche in which they can be leaders (this is also > how I interpreted one of your previous email). The question is wether we My point was not becoming a local leader, but having a place in the team where my opinion matters. No need to be a leader for that, at all. E.g. I've never ever felt beeing in the place of a leader in the KDE team, there even was nothing like a leader in it. And I shall say, it was, and think still is a very nice team to work with, I enjoyed the people in it a lot. > should try to attract them, and if yes, where and how. Maybe having a > way to quantitatively evaluate bug triaging and giving conditional > access to some reward could for instance motivate untrained persons to > contribute ? The reward can be as simple as using the score to provide > some social status on communauty websites. For instance, in the forums > of Ubuntu, people have more or less brown coffee grains (to suggest that > they are stronger ?). > > I have tried a few fishing experiments when Google brought me on places > dealing with free medical or bioinformatical software, and I have to > admit that for the moment my fish basket is empty. But if it is in > forums and other platforms which we deem sub-optimal there that people > who have energy to spend are, isn't it where Debian should go if it > wants to increase its manpower ? I will continue to do opportunistic > fishing for a while... Any kind of help is welcomed IMHO. Point is, if we _have_ to invest time to fish contributors like you say, those will have to be worth the investment, hence meaning that they should have a high probability to become regular contributors. Youngs people are often enthusiastic, a lot, but I'm not sure this is the kind of people that gets things done either. Note that I don't say it's not worth trying, it's just that I would not do that myself, I _think_ it's too time consuming when you balance it with the gain for debian. I may be wrong. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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