On 2006/04/06, at 22:21, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
If people don't understand that you don't have to write code to be a developer, then they should be told. If they are told, and they misunderstand, then that is a bug which should be fixed. But don't goaround claiming that I'm suddenly not a "developer" anymore -- I happento be quite proud of that.
Nobody's saying that you are going to stop being a developer. You can be proud of what you do being a developer. You've earned that status.
But requiring people who are not software developers to understand they suddenly have become developers because Debian is special is a little far fetched.
The bug is in the relation between "from new maintainer->to developer" and the corollary "other contributors don't _need_ to become developers".
However true that technically is, it clearly does not contribute to the well-being of non-maintainer contributors in the Project.
Jean-Christophe Helary