On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 19:39, Oliver Bausinger wrote: > On Wednesday 06 August 2003 20:01, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:10:24PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > Interessting analysis. Many things that hold up the release can only be > > > solved by active and experienced maintainers since the packages are often > > > essential. New developers can help maintaining them in cooperation with > > > main developer and get the experience after some time and reading of the > > > policy, developers reference, lib packaging guide, etc, but having a > > > sponsor between them and the upload queue is still better. > > > > Someone should point NMs to difficulty of entering the development > > mainstream of FreeBSD or becoming maintainer for the kernel... > > IMO it's generally too easy entering in Debian. > > > > And someone should point the DDs to the difficulty of entering KDE. > I sent only and handful of patches, then asked for a CVS account and got it > within two days. KDE is a wonderful example of encouraging people. > I've always thought KDE a wonderful example of what happens when you give commit access to just about anybody too. Scott (GNOME user)
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