On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 08:49:05PM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: > I figured out that all newcomers are required to have contributions in > Debian, which means *new packages*. Not at all. They must maintain at least one (but preferrably more) packages (if they want to do packaging). They may be team-maintained, and it is particularly suggested to them that they may adopt orphaned packages. In other words, browsing wnpp for RFH and O/RFA bugs is just as good as (and often better than) adding a new package. > Shouldn't we think about other alternatives in order to enforce contributions > besides creating packages ? If people want to do packaging for Debian, I think it is reasonable that they show contributions in that area. We don't actually require it for people who want to work on infrastructure or translations, for example. Thanks, Bas -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://pcbcn10.phys.rug.nl/e-mail.html
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