Per �yvind Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 12 August 2003 16:23, Michael Scherer wrote: >> On Tuesday 12 August 2003 13:20, Guillaume Rousse wrote: >> > Ainsi parlait Daouda LO : >> > > Yes, maybe a credit file that can be loaded by mcc about Dialog... >> > > The problem is who should figure in and who should not? how to >> > > maintain it ? etc ... >> > >> > Everyone having an account on klama is a good start. >> >> each week, in the gentoo weekly newsletter, each new developper are >> announced, so people are aware they exist, and that gentoo is >> developped by more than gentoo Inc. >> >> I guess that how they can announce a new contributer each week, because >> people know they can contribute quite easily > There was a discussion about a cooker newsletter a little while ago, I do like > that idea:) > > Also it would be great to attract more contributors, it seems like other > distro's manage to attract way more developers, which is funny considering we > have WAY more users, lately it seems like we have managed to attract more > with the wiki etc. this is a good sign, but it would be nice if we could > attract even more:) IMHO they're *really* needed, especially when looking at > all those packages which no longer rebuilds etc. due to the lack of > maintainers..
We used to write with Guillaume a cooker weekly news. It was quite time consumming, but with the wiki may we each week start a new page and any contributors can just add what he achieve, and a mail is sent to a mailing list at the end of the week? > about credits, it's important, not just for people's ego, but giving people > more credit gives them more motivation to do stuff and also attracts more > developers:) Yes, and any wiki commiter can add his name and what he does to: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrakeLinux92Credits -- Warly
