On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:27:28 +0200 Arno Töll wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello Michael, > > On 30.09.2011 21:57, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > Then let's get mentors officialized to tear down this barrier! > > This is not something I or you or anyone else could push forward right > now here. This is something which needs consensus among Debian > Developers and a DPL accepting that. And, finally some DDs who would > need to be delegated there.
Agreed. > Feel free to open a thread on debian-devel and/or get our beloved DPL's > opinion on that matter. Eventually you should find two developers first > which would agree with you pushing things forward here. I will do that. Thanks for the suggestion! > > In my opinion a term like "contributors" would be much more > > empowering. It would better convey the fact that this is as a place > > for new contributors to work together, learn, evolve, and grow within > > the project. > > We are all contributors. Those who need the mentors.debian.net and those > who don't. There is still room for improvements left. We're also all developers, and some of us are maintainers, but we're not necessarily described by those words in a Debian sense. I'm not trying to eliminate ambiguity in the labe; as that's essentially impossible when reducing a very broad thing to one word. I am however arguing for a more empowering reduction. And as can be seen on debian-devel, there is plenty of other ambiguity that already needs resolving. Perphaps I should chime in on that discussion. > > I agree, I chose this approach since it's possible to implement right > > now; although it's certainly fragile (certain changes to the mentors > > pages will break the scraping algorithms). A soap based interface > > would be wonderful! > > In fact, I noticed there is already a SOAP interface. Apparently nobody > used it since 2+ years though, so it may be working or not, but it seems > ok, generally speaking: Great! I never thought to check whether it already existed and there is no documentation to indicate that it did (or it isn't obviously available). Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
