On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:19:18 +0100 Iain Lane <laney@debian.org> wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:03:24AM +1100, Karl Goetz wrote: > > > both distributions. Moreso when people have direct upload access > > > to both and can therefore cause delta to be reduced themselves. > > > (Message: Encourage Ubuntu Developers to get upload privileges in > > > Debian and vice-versa) > > > > Even co-maintaining with active partner(s) is a great help. You > > apply the patch, build and test. They build test and upload :) (My > > point is you don't need to get upload yourself in debian to be > > useful) > > Yes, it is great. But in my experience it's even better when you can > do it yourself (in either distro), since you don't need to feel like > you're bothering other people for uploads which in reality are driven > by needs 'on the other side'. Good point (My experience with this has been part of the games team, where its a shared team). > > > + Some success in pushing people from MOTU to Debian when they > > > arrive with new packages. I still have the feeling that getting > > > people integrated with a team's workflows is inevitably difficult > > > though — encourage teams to write FAQs for newbies. > > > > And try to keep it to one faq, and (if possible) one place to look > > for packages to help with. (Although this is probably debian > > housekeeping and not right for this thread). > > Well, my point is that every team has somewhat-unique ways of working, > which can be confusing and/or frustrating when asking people to work > in Debian. These FAQs would probably consist of mainly links to other > documents, but would speak about packaging conventions, VCS locations > (and which VCS used), how to request sponsorship and so on. Right. > As you say, Debian internal, but something that if collected in a > standard location (linked to the pages off wiki.d.o/Teams, for > example), would allow newbies to help themselves a lot. Would be nice. I feel a [[Teams/TeamName/FAQ]] page would be a good (starting) place for it. thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK7FOSS) http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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