On Wednesday 06 August 2003 20:01, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:10:24PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Interessting analysis. Many things that hold up the release can only be > > solved by active and experienced maintainers since the packages are often > > essential. New developers can help maintaining them in cooperation with > > main developer and get the experience after some time and reading of the > > policy, developers reference, lib packaging guide, etc, but having a > > sponsor between them and the upload queue is still better. > > Someone should point NMs to difficulty of entering the development > mainstream of FreeBSD or becoming maintainer for the kernel... > IMO it's generally too easy entering in Debian. >
And someone should point the DDs to the difficulty of entering KDE. I sent only and handful of patches, then asked for a CVS account and got it within two days. KDE is a wonderful example of encouraging people. Greetings Bausi
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