[ moving to -publicity ] On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 10:54:50PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > In order to help noticing such RFSs, how-can-i-help is now listing them > (in version 4, uploading a couple minutes ago): > | New packages waiting for sponsorship (reviews/tests are also useful): > | - hwinfo - http://bugs.debian.org/733578 - RFS: hwinfo/21.0-1 [ITA] -- Hardware identification system Awesome!, thanks Lucas. > (and how-can-i-help already lists orphaned, RFA, ITA, RFH packages, bugs tagged > 'gift', packages removed from testing, and packages going to be removed from > testing soon). I'm since a while convinced that how-can-i-help is a very important piece of attracting newcomers to contribute to Debian. For that reason, I think we should promote it *a lot*. On one hand, I think it should be part of our default installation --- but that's a discussion that we should have in a different forum and that at some point I plan to start. For this forum (-publicity) the proposal is to promote the installation and usage of how-can-i-help via a blog post on bits.d.o and/or a (user) announcement. Lucas, assuming people here are fine with the idea, do you fancy writing a guest blog post for bits.d.o? As both the author and DPL, I think that would help promoting the tool more. Alternatively or complementary to that, what people here thing about an announcement via Debian News? Thanks for considering, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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