Re: skills of developers

2005-07-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 16:38:20 +0200, Torsten Landschoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi *, What kind of discussion is this? This is a discussion about project quality. We can't effort more bureaucrazy (typo intended) in the project. Let the people doing the work do the work instead of

Re: skills of developers

2005-07-16 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Bartosz Fenski] That's example: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2005/07/msg00254.html Wow, that's a disturbing thread! So, some people honestly don't see a problem with someone taking sole responsibility for a package with no ability to hack on its source? At the very least I'd

Re: skills of developers

2005-07-16 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hello, You claim that if someone spends just as much time translating Debian as someone else does on packaging software, the first one shouldn't become a DD and the second one does? I disagree firmly. Packaging is the essential work and everyone involved into Debian must be able to do

Re: skills of developers

2005-07-16 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi *, What kind of discussion is this? We can't effort more bureaucrazy (typo intended) in the project. Let the people doing the work do the work instead of first measuring their ability. If you are not able to maintain a package basically you wont. Or you wont for long as somebody will take

Re: skills of developers

2005-07-15 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Fri, July 15, 2005 02:36, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: Debian _Developer_. You can translate documents, submit then against the package as patch for example. You can even join to the translation teams. You claim that if someone spends just as much time translating Debian as someone else does

Re: skills of developers

2005-07-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Thijs Kinkhorst [Fri, Jul 15 2005, 12:27:55PM]: On Fri, July 15, 2005 02:36, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: Debian _Developer_. You can translate documents, submit then against the package as patch for example. You can even join to the translation teams. You claim that if

skills of developers

2005-07-14 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
Hello. I would like to move one subject. What are the required skills of the developers/developers-to-be? Debian Policy, Developers' Reference, New Maintainers' Guide and most documentation describe only _how to make a good package_. Good package in that case means it will comply with Debian

Re: skills of developers

2005-07-14 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 7/14/05, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In sum. Maybe it's time to create additional positions in Debian project? Maybe something like Packager (with knowledge about Bash and Debian Policy), Translator (with knowledge about some particular language and English), Helper

Re: skills of developers

2005-07-14 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
Hi Bartosz, On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 01:52 +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: What are the required skills of the developers/developers-to-be? Skip, as we both passed the NM process. should everyone be able to maintain every package on the world? No, packaging is not just put the right