On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:16:22 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Don't put more bureaucracy or hurdles in the way. That won't scale and > will frustrate people and some will feel a second-class citizen (I > already feel unwanted more and more in Fedora-land after this > discussion because I never found time to learn proper programming -- > mostly due to fact that most of my free time is already filled with > Fedora-related work). I do not think anyone is trying to require packagers to be able programmers. At least, that's not the spirit I'd like to see. > We have a lot of non-hackers that maintain packages in Fedora and it > worked well so far and that in parts made Fedora what it is today. > What IMHO would be good instead of what you outline: groups of people > (SIGs) a package-monkey can contact if he needs help to fix or improve > something needs programming skills. What I'd like to see is: - emergence of a group of able programmers willing to help squashing bugs in other maintainers' packages, and an easy way to alert this group of people to a list of bugs to squash - education of the non-programmers packagers that they can and *should* seek help from the above group when needed, and how to go about this process Christian _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
