Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling
Le 11/11/2014 18:59, Don Armstrong a écrit :
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Rob Owens wrote:
>> This type of comment says to me that my contributions to Debian are
>> useless if they are not in the form of code.
> https://contributors.debian.org/ is everyone who we know has contributed
> to Debian in one of the ways that we currently measure. [Granted, it's
> not complete, but people are working on it.]
>
> See https://contributors.debian.org/contributor/don%40debian for
> example.
>
> All kinds of contributions to Debian are welcome.
>
> But that said, at the end of the day, someone has to do the work.
> Whether it's the work writing documentation, filing bugs, writing
> patches, testing patches, answering questions, or helping others, if no
> one does the work, the work doesn't get done.
>
> When I (or someone else) asks people to "show us the code", it's really
> just shorthand for "someone needs to do this work, and it currently
> isn't important enough for me to do it."
>
Asking to provide a patch to an utterly compex code is just cpomplete
non-sens and hypocrisy : one cannot patch any complex software without
working on it for long hours.
And when the probleme is te basic design of the software a patch is not
conceivable.
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