> > Anyway, it saddened me that not only we are having very few new DDs, > we are also having very few new maintainers. So I decided to send an > email to those who were listed as having uploaded a package between > 2011 and 2013, with these questions:
Though out of curiosity, how is debian doing overall at recruiting new contributors? > * Was it hard for you to start contributing to Debian? Why / Why not? I think one issue is the process of submitting things to debian is fairly complex, so I found it easier to start working through a team since they knew all the procedures & policies already. I'm not sure there's an easy way to go from "this package is really old" to "here's how to update it and submit the updates to debian". I know I'd periodically updated packages for my own use, without making the connection that maybe I could push them to debian. Diane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2335819.7r5U6NfeX5@myrada
