On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:55, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > still left, but you should well know that a volunteer project needs to > distribute the dull jobs amongst those that are working for the main cause.
That is a fair point. However you may have noticed that there are difficulties in becoming a new Debian developer. Doing some of the dull jobs may make that easier for you. > In addition, "helping out maintainers" is something that strongly depends > on the willingness of maintainers to accept help. In my experience, the > quality of the packages is strongly correlated (maybe even causal, not > coincidental) to the willingness of maintainers to accept help and user > comments and their friendlyness to answer questions. That is true to a certain extent. However there are some packages that are so difficult to maintain that even with a lot of help and a lot of hard work there will still be plenty of bugs left to fix. Glibc and X spring to mind. > Again, please don't take offence, I don't mind your answer in itself, I > just want to point out some issues with the impression that potential > volunteers get when considering to apply for debian membership. To a large extent the Debian developers don't have direct control over this anyway. Search the archives and you'll find plenty of flame-wars on this topic. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
