On 20/09/07 at 22:01 +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote:
jdd wrote:
Pascal Bleser wrote:
There is currently no sponsoring system of any sort.
may be there is something but not clear: AMD is now a sponsor of openSUSE, but how?
AFAIK, AMD sponsors the openSUSE Build Service through a large amount of hardware. Lucas was referring to rewarding packagers for their contributions. At least that was my understanding.
Actually, there was clearly a problem with my question. I tried to ask them in a distribution-agnostic way, but I failed with this one. :-) My question should have been: How do you integrate new contributors, before they reach the point where you are confident about giving them write access to your repositories? (we use a "sponsorship process" for that in Debian, where a non-Debian Developer creates the package, and then find a DD willing to review it, and upload it under its own responsibility).
I understand this is not what is understood as developer work, but IMHO this is as important as the other part, a good program without documentation being impaired :-).
Sure. But I really think that Lucas is concentrating his research around the technical aspects of the distributions, which is mostly packaging, communication with upstream, bug triage, ...
That obviously doesn't mean that documentation or any other sort of contribution (support, forums, testing, advocating, ...) isn't equally important.
I'll try to ask questions about non-packaging work in the next set of questions. This is a very interesting aspect (and one where Debian isn't really good currently). On 20/09/07 at 20:31 +0100, Francis Giannaros wrote:
As for learning about the community -- why not join us for a while and see what it's like? :-) Getting involved in other communities is not nearly as difficult as you would think (for example, anyone can get an openSUSE build service account straight away), and it's the best way to get a real idea of things, especially if you're willing to investigate with the tools around etc. :-)
I must admit that I'm happy with my current involvement in Free Software (means: with Debian, and a bit with Ubuntu). Also, to make that effort worthwhile, I have to contact all the major distros: getting involved in the community of all the major distros at the same time is not going to be easy ;) Thank you all very much for your very interesting answers :-) -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lucas@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org