On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 23:51 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: > Hi, > > I removed the above page before, but I saw Russ added it again. Let me > explain why I think that page needs to die. > > It offers little insight to how one can become a developer. What is a > CentOS developer ? That's the first confusing part. The page answers the > question with a: "show competence and things will happen" > > We have a much better Contribute page that highlights ways to contribute > to the project. And it would be better to add all sorts of TODO lists > there (one for Artwork, one for Promo, etc...) > > The mailinglist answers reflect the ideas at that time, but since we > cannot update mails from that archive I would not point to previous > answers on the mailinglist. (And the mailinglist links were also not > working, but that's less relevant) > > It is much better to answer questions on the mailinglist by referencing > the Wiki, then doing the reverse... > > The above page already caused some confusion in an interview about Fedora, > where it was used to show that CentOS has no roadmap. It breaks my heart > if content can be used in such a way and I only found out that the > author's opinion was solemly based on that wiki page. > > http://howsoftwareis built.com/2008/12/21/interview-with-jeroen-van-meeuwen-fedora-project-vice-president-fedora-emea/ Dag that link is dead... > That was a reason for me to remove it, but what I should have done is > redirect it to the Contribute page instead. > > So can we please get rid of it ? > -- ~/john OpenPGP Sig:BA91F079
