Hello all. I have a three low-cost ideas for improving debian and even making it more fun!
1) "To measure is to know": Is it possible to provide a web page showing more statistical plots about various aspects of the project? (e.g. A bar plot of Number of RC-bugs vs Age of RC-bugs; Another page could even group the links to RC-bugs having the same age. Or a plot of number of serious-bugs vs time). People interested in the Debian-project can then very easily interpret the current health/state of the project as a whole. 2) Motivational: I do not know what type of funds the project has, but how about rewarding good package maintainers by implementing a biased lottery? The lottery could implement a point system. Each person starts of with a number of points. For each RC-bug more than (2 months?) old a point is subtracted from the maintainer. During the lottery everybody is eligible, but those having more points have a better probability of winning. The prizes naturally depends on the funds available, but could include a new computer or something similar. (P.S. The chances of winning something here will be much greater than winning the national lottery) 3) Marketability: Does Debian have a nice cd-label for sarge, that could be stuck on a cd? Does it have a design for the software box, that contains the cd's? There are probably people who would be willing to print these images and package the software in it. (Products are unfortunately also judged by the way that they are packaged) My 2c's for 2003 Regards, George
