Joss wrote:
>Le mercredi 19 août 2009 à 08:55 -0300, Rogério Brito a écrit : 
>> | 
>> | Please, if an existing package has not been updated for some time, just
>> | publicize this fact more conspicuously. Let us engage the existing (and
>> | prospective) maintainers in taking care of aging, but still useful
>> | packages.
>
>amen to all of that.
>
>It is never pointed out enough that the core packaging teams are
>seriously understaffed. Please, before uploading your pet package to the
>archive, consider joining one of the packaging teams looking for more
>maintainers: eglibc, Mozilla, KDE, GNOME, Xfce, Utopia, Apache, Kernel…
>we all need help from more maintainers, and you don’t necessarily have
>to be an experienced developer to help.

+1

As said at DebConf: we don't need more crap in the archive, we need
more people to help raise the quality of what we have. Working on the
core teams is a great way to do that.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                st...@einval.com
Is there anybody out there?


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