On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Andreas Jaeger
No dead end - ask! ;) New packages should get introduced on opensuse-factory first and as part of that the submitter can ask what the best devel project would be - and then somebody can volunteer and help if needed,
Sure. but that is what I call "a lot of pain". New packages "could" get introduced on Factory list instead of "should", unless we enforce it. Help process costs time but improves community connection. can't tell whether it's good or bad. To someone it's good, to others it slows her down. eg: I translated openSUSE into Chinese in two month, 30000+ items. but I can just submit 200 line of KDE translations in a week. Why? because they can't find a skillful reviewer fast enough for me, actually I graduate from a language school which aims to train Chinese ambassador.... And actually ML and IRC are the successful output of last century. The new generation prefers Instant messaging or social tools. That's why there're online list archive tools which make it appears like a forum. Recalls the first time we met? I asked you a question on Google+. I think there're a lot of crying about why we developers don't show up in forums.o.o or twitter. If you are only available to help through your mailbox in front of your home yard or the only one telephone in your office. That help nearly means nothing in a so big world. Actually you made an assumption that the ones who can offer help is available through ML. The Chinese "team" page in zh.o.o only got 300+ views from we had wiki to now. After I added a gtalk group into it. now its almost 3000+ views. In short, I mean: * Human help slows someone down if she's a powerful Google user. * We can't force the potential contributors who never use a ML or IRC in her life before to use that only to find out information which should be documented. And also, having a layout doesn't compromise the human help but improves it. Because nowadays even maintainers don't know exactly the purpose of every repositories. They need a reference to mention too. Marguerite -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org