Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Being a debian developer means your making a commitment to improving > debian in the long term. Sending in one bugfix does help debian, but > we shouldnt necessarily expect assisntance from this person in the > future. > Many people tell potential developers "you dont need to be one of us > to contribute".. in my mind "contributing makes you one of us".
Maybe we should change from a 'push' to a 'pull' architecture. In other words, when you start contributing a lot to Debian, and get noticed, then someone in Debian proposes you as a new maintainer. This might have the potential to eliminate a lot of the beaurocratic bullshit that goes on right now, in that we wouldn't have to worry about running people through all kinds of crap. When we find a good one, we invite them on board. This might also have the potential to eliminate a certain category of whining... -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/
