Dnia 2012-07-01, nie o godzinie 08:24 -0400, Kevin Mark pisze: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 08:34:01AM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > > I'd go even further and say that the reason why people start on > > something generally in Free Software projects is to "scratch their itch" > > which in Debian could well mean packaing your favourite piece of > > software. Sorry for resurrecting old thread, but I want to give perspective of someone who is maintaining leaf projects. I am maintaing 3 python packages. I have started in 2010 (beginning with pytools, then pyopencl) and in 2011, after nvidia-cuda-toolkit landed in Debian, pycuda. Recently I have added support for Python 3 in pytools and pyopencl. I am cooperating with upstream. Most of uploads were sponsored by Piotr Ożarowski (except for one, uploading pyopencl 0.92-1 during Squeeze freeze). You can say I have stable situation: cooperating with one upstream, having usual sponsor. Now I am in the process of becoming DM. > > Has anyone quantized the % of tasks that a DD/DM does that are outside of their > pet projects? Meaning, once they get their itch scratched, how far outside of > their main reason for joining Debian, do they explore? Would it be useful to > game-ify people's efforts outside their 'comfort zone' (eg. a perl packager > working on Haskell, or doing debian-www work) ? > If people just work on their pet projects, is that the most typical behavior > throughout Debian's history? Do people explore more as they become more > comfortable/familiar over a number of years? Currently I am not reaching very far outside my comfort zone. I am not sure whether gamification would help here; maybe some list of easy tasks to try, to decide whether I like them or not? I am not sure whether my situation reflects others, but when going into new territory in the beginning I need few easy steps and feeling that I can ask someone without interrupting him/her. Then, as situation progresses, I feel more eager to experiment. I do not feel I can see _the step_ between managing own packages and doing something more "core". When I read about "helping with core" I do not even know where to start. How to decide what is this other activity that should be done and I'll feel confident enough to try? Best regards. -- Tomasz Rybak <tomasz.rybak@post.pl> GPG/PGP key ID: 2AD5 9860 Fingerprint A481 824E 7DD3 9C0E C40A 488E C654 FB33 2AD5 9860 http://member.acm.org/~tomaszrybak
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