On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar <DimStar@opensuse.org> wrote:
'New' contributors often do not start with a new package, but with a 'fix'/'update'.
Actually it's based on an assumption that: the "new" contributor is coming to fix. to contribute. but that's no always true. there're another common case of contribution: the "new" contributor is an openSUSE user who locally configure && make && make install an application. finds that application is so good that he can't help & hold the emotion to have it included in openSUSE Distribution by default. What can he do? he don't even know how to write spec file and how to package. So he comes to our powerful wiki. found specfile guideline. and OBS tutorial. start it from fresh. After many trials, he made it in his home. According to the wiki, now he needs to submit it to a devel repository first then Factory. but which? dead end. or at least a lot pain to find out the correct repository. You may call it "grown up"...that's my experience. and that's why a lot of packages comes into openSUSE by my hands. But the wiki just said: find a correct repo. Actually we're missing something in the self-learning tutorial chain. Everyone is selfish according to economics book. If I can't even please my self with my package, how can I please others. so building in one's home is of a large percent of the newbies' first start than the assumption to fix. Even if the fix assumption is right, we're still wrong. Because nowadays our wiki is focusing on how to teach him to package instead of teach him to fix. if the fix assumption is true, we're leading the wrong way to the newbies. Anyway after 12.2 is released ( so many things to work before its release), I'll write such an layout for newbies. Marguerite -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org