On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 11:38:04PM +0000, Martin WHEELER wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 3 May 2002, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > > Yes. Package it, that way they cannot say you are only a > > documentation maintainer. > > Hmmm. > > Javi -- would you please care to elaborate on that: "only" ? > (It seems to me to indicate an unwarranted attitude of superiority.) I was just elaborating under the same thread, other people said they encountered problems in the NM queue due to not having packaged anything. I did not, by any means, suggest I feel the work of documentation developers (*and* translators) is either neligible or of less value than software maintainership. You see, I write documentation and translate myself. > > I am currently working very hard at becoming a documentation maintainer; > I am proud of the fact; and I see myself as (at least) the equal of a > package maintainer in the professionalism and in-depth knowledge > required to achieve this status, and the work it entails. > I sincerely apologise if you thought I was "downgrading" you. That was not my intent. I only said that, being the NM queue as it is, Osamu had an easy way to layoff the package-centered vision of it just by packaging the same documentation he is maintaining. IMHO it is also an important task to provide documentation for offline reading so that users do not need an Internet connection to learn about Debian. > Different jobs require different skills in different knowledge areas. > The _degree_ of skillfulness and craftsmanship required for each is, I > would say, the same. I agree. However, people should be working with the NM group to introduce this same point of view. Probably, there is nobody dedicated to documentation issues in the NM queue and they might not realise its importance (or think packaging is more important). I really don't know the criteria used there but since some people (re-read the thread please) seemed to imply it was too package-biased I just suggested Osamu a solution. For example, I find it lacking that http://www.debian.org/devel/join/nm-step4 doesn't talk at all about translators. Even if documentation-oriented, translation skills are completely different from documentation ones. Regards Javi
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