Need advocate

[Michael S. Fischer]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 11:07:10PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:

> Two responses here:
> 
> a. There are many ways to help make Debian better without being a
>    developer, and oddly enough, folks who engage in them before applying
>    often seem to slide through the process like a greased pig[1]. The
>    ability to upload strings of bits to a server somewhere is pretty
>    unimportant in the scheme of things, and most every other way of
>    contributing to the project is open to everyone. For example, if you
>    think the maintainer of whatever the package is is MIA and that he's
>    been ignoring the clearly correct patch to fix whatever the bug is,
>    well you're free to post to that effect to debian-devel just like any
>    developer would.
> b. People are going to react a lot better to "I want to join Debian to 
>    help with Debian QA". Than they are to "I want to join Debian so I
>    can make lots of NMU's". Even though the former just requires a
>    smidgeon of a wider view than the latter, and they otherwise mean
>    pretty much the same thing. No aplogies, that's just the way it is.

Joey,

Thank you for your polite and well-balanced response.  I'll try to help
in this fashion. 

Ivan and David, no hard feelings, I hope.

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Michael S. Fischer / michael at dynamine.net / +1 650-533-4684
Lead Hacketeer, Dynamine Consulting, Silicon Valley, CA