On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:19:14PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:31:32PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Excellent points made by both of you. > > > Here are some things that occur to me quickly: > > > 1) Large projects using $DVCS and making it easy for people that aren't > > familiar with $DVCS to learn how to participate in that project. Here I > > assume $DVCS to be one of hg, git, darcs, bzr. The "maintainer of record" > > in control could be a Linus-like patch reviewer. The instructions are > > something akin to what I post at > > http://software.complete.org/site/wiki/DarcsGuide and > > http://software.complete.org/site/wiki/MercurialGuide > > Are we still talking about OOo here? > > OOo is its own barrier to entry. You're not going to get a very > "distributed" set of contributors when just building the package from source > requires setting aside multiple GB of disk and several hours of CPU time. I > believe that, as much as anything, is why there are so few people working on > the Debian package; it's just not practical to be a casual contributor to a > monolithic package like OOo.
Indeed, this is something I can appreciate, since I simply wasn't able to work on X for years because I didn't have the machine resources to build a full tree. What I think we need to do is figure out how to get non-casual contributors interested. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
