Re: We should not be just package maintainers to make Debian grow
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 19:28:53 -0600
Nathan E Norman <nnorman@micromuse.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 11:01:42PM -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> > what you are proposing is that we have someone telling people what to do
> > and that won't work in a so huge project
>
> I got the impression he was asking for a page listing work that needs
> to be done; someone can care about quality a lot and have some spare
> cycles they'd like to donate to debian, but they don't know where to
> start.
and who would maintain that page? I see this person as "someone telling
people what to do"
> Personally I don't feel I have time to be a full-time maintainer. I'm
> no C expert, so I often feel out of place on d-devel. I do work in the
> software industry, so I think I understand some of the issues. I've
> used debian for years, worked as a sysadmin and network engineer for
> many years, etc. If there were a list of "to-dos" somewhere I'd be
> more likely to spend a weekend working on some of it. I'd like to
> help out somehow.
there's the QA todo, but there are lots of work to do... my view
is the following: read a list for a while, or check a package for
a while and you'll notice what's wrong and what needs to be done
(I am always noticing what needs to be done on debian-www and debian-doc,
I just don't have time or knowledge to help)
for example, try to make the package's pages (packages.debian.org/package)
show the copyright/changelog file for the package... that's a must do
[]s!
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Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov <http://www.metainfo.org/kov>
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