Re: This is how packaging should be done.
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 06:41:57AM -0700, Jeremiah Mahler wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 02:46:57PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> > > What about the idea that anyone (not just maintainers) can submit
> > > packages and they will available immediately to others without
> > > having to go through an intermediate person.
> >
> > There's a reason for that, you know. The idea is that we want to make
> > sure that all debian developers are competent.
> >
>
> if (person is a developer) {
> person is competent
> } else {
> person is not competent
> }
You completely twisted what Bas said. "The idea is that we want to
make sure that all debian developers are competent." Where in that
statement did he say that non-developers are not competent? The
problem here is one of the Debian project *assessing* the competence
of contributors. For that, we have a very well-thought-out and
*working* solution.
> This is obviously false.
It is indeed obviously false, so why didn't you bother to check what Bas
said more carefully to try to reason out what he really meant to say instead
of going off half-cocked about it?
> I (probably others) are competent enough
> to fix bugs and create new packages. I do not consider myself equal
> in skills to that of a package maintainer, but I still have the
> ability to make worthwhile contributions.
Fine, then please submit patches as bug reports where you think things are
not getting the attention they deserve. In this way, you can contribute to
Debian development without being a developer.
Ben
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