Andrew Suffield wrote: >I'm not sure there are any good ones other than having some specific >(technical, not political) things you want to see done and are willing >to do. In that case, you won't have to be told to demonstrate stuff - >you'll just do it, because you want to. Wrong. There have been specific technical things I wanted to do which simply cannot be done easily as an outsider.
Generally it's QA stuff. I'm doing it anyway, of course; it's just slower and more tedious and discouraging. So I tend to prefer to go back to my GCC work. (Despite many claims of patches and submissions getting ignored at GCC, I've found them to be easier to help than Debian in general. This is not intended to disparage those package maintainers who are really good at communicating and being responsive, of which I have encountered quite a few.) Incidentally, the entire NM system seems geared toward package maintainers only, if you read the web pages. (That was not particularly encouraging.) -- Nathanael Nerode <neroden at gcc.gnu.org> http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html