Hi Patrick, * Patrick Winnertz <winnie@debian.org> [2008-02-27 12:14]: > > > > > (1) Forbid DDs and people in the NM process waiting for FD/DAM to > > > > > apply as students. > > > > > > > > I'm not sure we will be able to reach a consensus on this, but my > > > > vote would be for this point. > > > > I'm not completely persuaded this is correct. Someone should explain > > why an existing contributor does not concentrate his/her efforts on > > the choosen project instead of wasting time in other tasks, and > > why a new contributor should not do that. I think it is a management > > problem, not a choice of contributors. > Mh.. yes this is correct. > But this is not the reason why I seconded this.. > I seconded this as the Google Summer of Code is meant for people to get in > touch with open source projects and to get new contributors. And someone > who waits for FD/DAM or is already a DD is not really new to debian. The problem with this is that the GSoC is about coding and not about contributing to a FOSS project in general. Being a DD or waiting for FD/DAM does not imply that you have experience in coding on a FOSS project. Kind regards Nico -- Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de - nion@jabber.ccc.de - GPG: 0x73647CFF For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.
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