Re: my first package - xvgr
> >> Now, I need someone who can help me with some questions from time to time.
> >> I will have (and already have) questions which are not answered in
> >> info or man or /usr/doc. I need some 'daddy' to help me find the way :-)
> >> I could go to the debian-devel list, but I am afraid I would bother them
> >> with my stupid questions. And, I don't want to upgrade to unstable yet, so
> >> I may need someone who helps me with publishing.
>
> Hi!
>
> You are maintaining a package, right? A package-maintainer is a
> developer, right? Hmm. I think you *should* be in debian-devel AFAIK.
>
> Only stupid question is the one you don't ask.
It is a bit of a concern that there is this feeling that asking developer
related questions on debian-devel is not the thing to do. I know myself
that often share the same feeling.
Without bringing down the massive effort that has already been done by the
people writing documentation, there are still many holes in the documentation
where a new developer, or one who is trying something new, needs to ask a
question. Add to this that some developers don't speak English as their
first language and it can get real difficult.
I'd like to see debian-devel (or another mail list perhaps if neccessary)
a lot more "newbie developer friendly". I'm not sure how to make this
happen. I'm not saying that we're all doing a bad thing here, but perhaps
we all forget how hard the first deb package was.
> Just got to try, when I have some time. Or contribute something else.
> Might start with some old and work-needing package, rather than to
> start packaging a brand new one.
There's plenty there! I'm looking at taking over a few. I found a lot of
the time the hard work is already done, or perhaps my first package is
just a difficult one.
- Craig
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