Hi, * Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-23 09:52]: > Nico Golde wrote: > >[...] > >It seems that many people don't see this document. Maybe it > >would be a good choice to include it as a special part in > >the NMG? > >Regards Nico > > > As someone who has only recently tried to scale the "new developer" > documentation, I can > tell you that there is room for improvement. I have been going over those > docs several > times in the past few days, and each time I find myself lost in front of a > page full of > links embedded inside text, looking for the right doc I know is there, > because I read it > in the past. > > The amount of pages one needs to read just in order to find out what it is > you need to > read is huge. While I am lucky to be fluent enough in English, despite it not > being my > native tongue, I doubt many non-native English speakers even manage to get to > the other > end of it to find the debian-mentors list. Personally, I think it's a shame. > Then again, > I have not (yet, I hope) earned for my key to be placed in the Debian key > ring, so one > may say I have not earned the right to complain. > > I will say this. From reading the email that started this thread, I believe > Martin was > looking for a sponsor, not an advocate. Basically, he sent the right email to > the right > list, but mistook one jargon word for another. Frankly, I can empathize with > his mistake. > After all, I clean forgot to to file an ITP in the BTS for wnpp for my > package... > > Shachar > > P.S. > For those so versed in the jargon soup that the last sentence did not sound > strange to > them, it was supposed to be ironic (despite being factually true).
[...] yes i know this problem too. at the beginning of my debian envolvement i had big problems with it to. i know there are many places which explain dam, am etc. but i think it would be great to have a list with this acronyms on a special page in the new maintainer documentation. i would write one other people think the same about this. regards nico -- Nico Golde - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GPG: 1024D/73647CFF ,'"`. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.ngolde.de ( grml.org VIM has two modes - the one in which it beeps `._,' and the one in which it doesn't -- encrypted mail preferred
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