On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 08:15:42PM +0000, Martin WHEELER wrote: > Debian developer status is restricted to hairy programmer types. As far as I've been able to tell over the years, that's not strictly true. Culturally, I think we have a tendency to place more value on a person if he's a code wizard, but we have and continue to accept people into the project for doing unglamourous work like working on the web site. There are have certainly been some pretty lousy coders who gained entrance to our project. Some proved valuable assets in spite of this fact, but we've had smart and talented people who joined and then never did anything (or performed spectacular service and then faded completely away), as well. I don't think facility with programming languages is a necessary or sufficient condition for Debian developer status. More to the point, I don't think it has been de facto. -- G. Branden Robinson | Damnit, we're all going to die; Debian GNU/Linux | let's die doing something *useful*! branden@debian.org | -- Hal Clement, on comments that http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | space exploration is dangerous
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