MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> writes: > "cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <cobaco@linux.be> >> The 'Maintainer' in NM is a misnomer, I understand it is possible to go >> through NM as a translator or documentation writer. > I also had replies from Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt and Eddy Petrişor > saying similar things. The first two paragraphs of the NM Corner > seem to stress that only maintainers need be developers, then > there's an explanation that developers can upload anything so > we need to verify technical skills, before the intro finishes > by suggesting sponsorship. Before speaking about sponsorship (which some people wanting to maintain packages as developer still don't know), this sentence clarifies the issue: | To ease the process, it is important to already be familiar with Debian, | so we require that prospective developers have already contributed | - in the form of translations, documentation, sending patches or | package maintenance. > Looking in more detail, Step 4: Tasks and Skills does say that > other contributions are possible, but suggests that these are > special cases needing extra agreement from FrontDesk and DAM. After speaking about writing documentation as way to show your skills. The problem with other things is that an AM/the FD/the DAM often can't verify the quality of these contributions, so we need to work out how to control that. Think of translators, for example - I'd never say I'm able to say if a translation to french is good, but I know that I can ask Christian Perrier about that. Stuff like that should be coordinated, so that no work needs to be done twice. >> So maybe what we need to do is to rename NM to NC (new contributor) with >> subpages detailing the differnet T&S for the different classes of >> contributors. > How about calling it New Developer if that's what it should be? Why does it need to be changed? People maintain websites, translations, documentation, packages - I don't see a reason to change the current name. Marc -- BOFH #324: Your packets were eaten by the terminator
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