Package: www.debian.org Tags: patch On 08/05/2011 12:34 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > >> Any thoughts on how it should be updated to reflect last year's GR? > > Once you have better wording, checkout the webwml CVS and submit a > bug/patch against www.debian.org. > > http://www.debian.org/devel/website/using_cvs Proposed patch attached for the english version below. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, pabs. --dkg
Index: nm-advocate.wml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/devel/join/nm-advocate.wml,v retrieving revision 1.9 diff -u -r1.9 nm-advocate.wml --- nm-advocate.wml 13 Jun 2010 10:42:44 -0000 1.9 +++ nm-advocate.wml 5 Aug 2011 22:01:58 -0000 @@ -7,12 +7,37 @@ <p>You should <em>only</em> advocate someone if you think that they are ready to be a developer. This means that you should have known them for some time and can judge their work. It is important that prospective -developers have been working in the project for some time, by maintaining -a package, helping users and sending patches. They should be familiar -with Debian's special ways of doing things and have contributed some -work to the project. Just ask yourself if you want to see them in Debian -– if you think they should be a Debian developer then go ahead and -recommend them. +developers have been working in the project for some time. Some ways +prospective developers might be contributing include:</p> + +<ul> +<li>maintaining a package (or several),</li> +<li>helping users,</li> +<li>publicity work,</li> +<li>translations,</li> +<li>organizing work for debconf,</li> +<li>sending patches,</li> +<li>contributing bug reports,</li> +<li>... and much more!</li> +</ul> + +<p>These ways of helping are not mutually exclusive, of course! Many +prospective developers will have done work in several areas of the +project, and not everyone must be a packager. Remember, <a +href="http://www.debian.org/vote/2010/vote_002";>Debian welcomes +non-packaging contributors as project members</a>. For a wider +overview of a given contributor, you may be interested in <a +href="http://ddportfolio.debian.net/";>tools which aggregate some +publicly-visible parts of the project</a>. Your personal knowledge of +the applicant is also important here. +</p> + +<p>The prospective developer should be familiar with Debian's special +ways of doing things and should have already contributed actively and +effectively to the project. Most importantly, they should be +committed to the ideals and structure of the Debian project. Ask +yourself if you want to see them in Debian – if you think they +should be a Debian developer then go ahead and recommend them. </p> <p>Next carry out the following steps: Agree with the prospective developer
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