Hi Bartosz, On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 01:52 +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > What are the required skills of the > developers/developers-to-be? Skip, as we both passed the NM process. > should everyone be able to maintain every package on the world? No, packaging is not just put the right files to the correct place thing. You/we often should make changes to the source to make it compile, further develop upstream (like the kernel-source or what Siggy and a bit me was doing with MailMan, etc). Changes sometimes also required to make the depends optional and/or chooseable. (Bug-)Reporters may submit patches, that you should read and approve or reject, etc. Last but not least you should know how to configure a package, how to make transitions from one version to an other if it needs configuration/data upgrade. Packaging is not just packaging, see that some packages have a team to do it right, because one person just can't do it. > To be honest I intended to join Debian project mainly to work on > documentation/translation efforts. Yes, I have asked you back then that you are going to be a Debian _Developer_ when the only thing you want to do is documentation and translation. > I was HIGHLY SURPRISED that my > application manager (greetings to him) asked me how to create Debian > package. For Christ's sake who the f*** I am to know about it if I'm going > only to translate some stupid documents huh? Debian _Developer_. You can translate documents, submit then against the package as patch for example. You can even join to the translation teams. Have you seen http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/ for example? I think yes, as you are involved according to http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/po-debconf/pl There are mailing lists even: http://lists.debian.org/i18n.html Also, general documentation needs translators as well: http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals There are some Polish done, but others may accept help as well. > I'll be never good programmer and I'm aware of it. Knowing C and knowing > C can be two different things. Yup, and knowing C and Ada can be an other kind of different things. > In sum. Maybe it's time to create additional positions in Debian project? There are already differences, maybe not like you 'proposed', but for example _no-one_ should be a DD to make translations. So I think the very first thing a translator should do is to join his/her tranlation team and/or maillist and offer help. DD as the name suggests is a 'Developer'. > I suppose we're going to have flamewar here as usual, so please... oh > nevermind :P It was my first and only shot. I do not know how I got your mail even, as I am not on debian-devel@ anymore. Thus I don't think I will get the replies even, will read archives. Regards, Laszlo/GCS
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