On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Kumar Appaiah <a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in> wrote:
> The word "Debian Developer" seems to have become synonymous with > those who package or write software for Debian. Whether that was > intentional or unintentional is not known to me, but this aspect is > what several potential contributors seem to know very well, and this > demographic applies to enter Debian via the packaging route. > > While the NM process and related documentation is very clear on > allowing non-packaging contributors, I feel that more can be done to > encourage non-packaging contributors to take this route, and this > step, I felt, is one in that direction. > > Feel free to correct me if I am wrong. Very much correct. I personally would have thought the right way to correct the public perception that NM is not for non-packaging contributors would be to use our (newish) publicity team or a "Bits from DAM/FD" mail on d-d-a rather than start a GR. On the other hand, the GR has already had some publicity: http://lwn.net/Articles/404954/rss -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti==dqdnyfdcq=-5crxkvsy2sroe-p79tdhis...@mail.gmail.com
