Re: About NM and Next Release
On Thursday 07 August 2003 09:51, Yven Johannes Leist wrote:
> I think not even that is exactly true either, since the skills required to
> get a cvs account for KDE are surely somewhat above our NM checks[1]. You
> usually need to have a whole application written by yourself to get an
> account, and while this is of course somewhat similar to our "prospective
Not necessarily :)
A decent committment to some part of the source tree should suffice.
Also not all accounts are developer accounts, there are translators, www
maintainers and so forth.
> DDs should have at least one package" rule, creating a Debian package is
> hardly comparable to creating a full-blown C++ application. (Unless, of
> course, the complexity of the Debian package is well above average, because
> of required and difficult upstream work for instance.)
This might apply to people not knowing C++ for whatever reason, but beyond I
consider both tasks of about the same complexity. It's just that developing
an application is hard at the beginning (until a certain set of features has
been implemented), whereas Debian package maintenance becomes harder later on
when dealing with changing dependencies, smooth upgrades/downgrades and
probably backports.
That being said, the cyclic mentioning of non-openness problems on d-d does
not invalidate the fact that those who invest time into a project are
steering it, independent of whether they're a "member" or not (true also for
KDE and certainly other projects).
Josef
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