Package: www.debian.org Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-21 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch hi, the current threads on debian-devel about the nm-process make me think that some confusion could be avoided in the future by small changes to the new maintainer page encouraging interested persons to contribute to debian in a significant way before trying to apply. i attached an example cu robert -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux sandbender 2.4.20 #3 Sat Jul 12 11:40:52 CEST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
Index: newmaint.wml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/devel/join/newmaint.wml,v retrieving revision 1.44 diff -u -u -r1.44 newmaint.wml --- newmaint.wml 18 Jul 2003 08:56:25 -0000 1.44 +++ newmaint.wml 21 Jul 2003 16:54:05 -0000 @@ -9,8 +9,13 @@ can find all the details of applying, the process details, and how to track the progress of ongoing applications.</p> -<p>If you want to do something for Debian but without becoming a developer, -there are several other ways <a href="./">in which you can help</a>. +<p>Please note that it is not necessary to become a developer before +contributing to Debian. It is actually much more likely that you will be +accepted if you have contributed a significant amount of work before. Packaging +software for Debian is not the only way that you can help, and in this context +not necessarily the best either. There is a lot of <a href="./">other work</a> +that needs to be done that will get you accustomed to Debian, it's developers +and ways to handle things.</p> <table border="0" align="center" width="75%"> <tr>
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