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

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Warly

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