On 2006/04/05, at 19:27, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
(besides for the very condescending "can be done by everyone", as if
maintaining a package required such very specific skills that "not
everyone can acquire"...)
ok, it think it's fair to say that this definately is _not_ meant
to be
condescending. Especially as a bit further down that same page it says
Of course it is not condescending :) But it still puts a very clear
distinction between:
1) maintainers who potentially can become developers (and as such
_members_ of the Debian Project)
2) everyone else, who does not _need_ to become a developer to
participate (and as such will never become _members_ of the Debian
Project)
If the document was rewritten with "New Members' corner", with very
explicit mentions of which contribution can lead to becoming a
_member_ (and not a _developer_), then there would not be such an
implicit discrimination between "maintainers" and "everyone else".
Then you'd have a section for maintainers, for translators, for
coders, for whatever actually exists and makes the Debian Project
what it is today.
To ease the process, it is important to already be familiar with
Debian,
so we require that prospective developers have already contributed
– in
the form of translations, documentation, sending patches or package
maintenance.
explicitly naming translations as an accepted form of earlier
contributions.
Sure, then what would a translator/developer do with full upload
rights ?
Why do full upload rights and votings rights have to be equivalent ?
Jean-Christophe Helary
