On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 03:43:39PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: <snip> > It will likely be one of my last post on that matter because I feel > that valuable contributors left it long ago. Would it be useful to personally email those people and 'ask them why' as a way to address the issue? > > You're (not you Matthias, You the other people with those ideas) take > the problem from the wrong side. The question is not about _how_ to > attract people, but how did people that are now valuable contributors > were attracted to what they do right now. When you'll know that we will > be able to improve those things so that it gets even more attractive > than now. attracting and keeping people are 2 different things. Are you suggesting that debian-kde is attacting sufficient people but lately has had people leave for specific reasons? > > I think I was a quite decent contributor for the kde group. I worked > with those people because the project was on alioth, that the team was > nice and open, and that there was an active IRC channel to talk with > people on. this sounds like a collegial and active community with many useful and friendly communication channels! Are any of those missing in other Debian subprojects? > I never went on debian.org that is the last idea I would have > had to find an information, given how badly the site is designed and > organized. So you seem to seperate the 'alioth' environment from the 'debian.org' environment in your mind because of the more positive associations you've had with it. Makes sense to stay there and not wander elsewhere. > > I never knew about debian.org/..../help page before today. And I've > never read RFH's for that, as again IMHO it's like some alarm thing, not > meant as a permanent thing. Now everyone's experience is different. But > ask that to good contributors, and you'll know what is important. see first comment. > Just > know that none of the suggestions made so far would have helped me more > when I was searching who/what to help, it would even have bored me. Which is why multiple should be used. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! |
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