On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 18:57 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Bryen M. Yunashko wrote:
So for us, we have two real challenges: 1) Keep the term "Member" or come up with something better? We're always open to suggestions. and 2) Turn up the volume on Henne's beloved "Just do it!" mantra and get people to really get it into their heads that if you want to contribute, just do it. You do not need our approval of membership to be a contributor.
I find it really difficult to believe that genuine potential contributors are actually held back because they think they need to be members. Where would they get that idea from? - are there any other open source projects that require some form of membership before you can submit a patch or join the general debacle? Over the past ten years or so, I have contributed to a number of open source projects, not ever thinking I needed to know the secret handskake :-)
-- Per Jessen, Zürich (16.9°C)
I don't disagree with you here at all. -) Just don't forget that many of these applications are newcomers to open source and openSUSE and haven't quite gotten the concept of open source participation fully yet. They're not contributors now but they *could* be at some point in the future. Its up to us whether to say "Come back later" or "here's how you can contribute and these are some good concrete steps to get started." Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org