NM Report for Week Ending 04 Sep 2005

Weekly Report on Debian New Maintainers === For week ending 04 Sep 2005. Weekly Summary Statistics = 3 more people applied to become a new maintainer 2 applicants became maintainers. New Maintainers ===

Using orphaned packages as NM playground

Hi! Since I don't only want to ask theoretical questions to my applicants, I had given them a nonofficial and really broken bogus package (that was sent to me for sponsoring a long time ago), and asked them to fix all packaging bugs they could find and make it a really perfect package. However,

Re: Using orphaned packages as NM playground

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:27:58AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: However, since this is just wasted effort, I would rather want to have them work on an actually useful thing. It recently sprang into my mind that it could be a good idea to pick some really poor packaged orphaned packages and ask

Re: Using orphaned packages as NM playground

Hi Matthew! Matthew Palmer [2005-09-05 20:31 +1000]: I've pointed my applicants at orphaned packages in the past. It works fairly well -- it gives them some experience dealing with real-world messes, and the end result is something that won't just get binned. I've been content with asking

Re: Using orphaned packages as NM playground

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:27:58AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: I think by working on orphaned packages we should not step on anybody's toes, right? You're right, you won't step on anyone's toes. What do you think about this idea? I personally do think it's better to have effort being put in

Re: Using orphaned packages as NM playground

Hi Jeroen! Jeroen van Wolffelaar [2005-09-05 14:56 +0200]: I personally do think it's better to have effort being put in packages/whatever that are either important or of specific interest to a given contributor. Right. By specifically directing efforts to exactly those packages that, by

Re: BTS version tracking

On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 09:05:59PM -0300, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote: Em Dom, 2005-09-04 às 01:40 +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas escreveu: while going through the first application as AM i thought it might be useful to ask a question about the nice new feature of our BTS: version tracking. I

Re: Using orphaned packages as NM playground

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 04:10:17PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar [2005-09-05 14:56 +0200]: By specifically directing efforts to exactly those packages that, by definition, have nobody interested in them at the moment, I think you're still spending time inefficiently: