Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote: > This was one example, they're are plenty others. In fact, an > excellent and recent example is debian-installer (d-i). Help has been > asked for several times, but only few responded. To give a specific > example, Joey Hess posted a mail "debian-installer help wanted" message > in which he asked for help "installation report processing" > (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/01/msg00015.html). > The job was described well, and there was even a HOWTO describing how > to perform this task. Guess how many people ended up processing > install reports? Probably 4 or 5, of which only 2 were not involved with d-i already; a total of maybe 150 reports were processed due to this. Nobody who managed to stick with it longer than a week, and we're still at 500 unprocessed. Most of the other tasks outlined in that mail did not get any responses. -- see shy jo
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