On Thursday 07 August 2003 09:51, Yven Johannes Leist wrote: > I think not even that is exactly true either, since the skills required to > get a cvs account for KDE are surely somewhat above our NM checks[1]. You > usually need to have a whole application written by yourself to get an > account, and while this is of course somewhat similar to our "prospective
Not necessarily :) A decent committment to some part of the source tree should suffice. Also not all accounts are developer accounts, there are translators, www maintainers and so forth. > DDs should have at least one package" rule, creating a Debian package is > hardly comparable to creating a full-blown C++ application. (Unless, of > course, the complexity of the Debian package is well above average, because > of required and difficult upstream work for instance.) This might apply to people not knowing C++ for whatever reason, but beyond I consider both tasks of about the same complexity. It's just that developing an application is hard at the beginning (until a certain set of features has been implemented), whereas Debian package maintenance becomes harder later on when dealing with changing dependencies, smooth upgrades/downgrades and probably backports. That being said, the cyclic mentioning of non-openness problems on d-d does not invalidate the fact that those who invest time into a project are steering it, independent of whether they're a "member" or not (true also for KDE and certainly other projects). Josef
