Re: Welcome page

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca> writes:

> Ben Finney wrote:
> >How about:
> 
> >    Please note that your work is much more likely to be accepted
> >    quickly if it improves an existing Debian package, and especially if
> >    if it fixes a bug already reported in our BTS.
> 
> Or:
> 
> The goal of the pkg-perl team is not just to maintain many packages,
> but to maintain them well.  We all understand that sometimes packaging
> new packages is necessary (or just fun!), but please consider spending
> a little effort on updating our existing packages.  Particularly
> [release critical bugs] should be fixed as quickly as possible so that
> all of our packaging efforts can benefit the users of the next stable
> Debian release.
> 
> where [release critical bugs] is a link to PET

I think that is less useful on the welcome page for at least two
reasons:

* It's much longer, therefore less likely to be read by visitors to an
  introductory webpage. (I was addressing Gregor's request for “a
  sentence”.)

* It doesn't speak to the needs of the *reader*; i.e. “here is how to
  get what you want (your work in Debian)”.

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Ben Finney