On Thursday 06 February 2003 22:01, Austin Acton wrote: > For anyone who doesn't know, I looked into how Debian organizes their > development community: > > 1. They have documents clearly outlining their goals and standards. > http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines > http://www.debian.org/social_contract > > 2. They generally communicate through mailing lists: > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ > low volume: > debian-devel-announce, debian-news > high volume: > debian-devel, debian-project, debian-mentors, etc. > This is probably more developer friendly than my wiki suggestion. > I still think we should have some sort of web-interfaced list of > developers, contact info, and stuff they're currently working on, but > yeah, mailing lists are much nicer for communicaiton. >
Yeah this is an absolutly need. Current one-fits-all is not a solution. The different mailinglists of debian sounds like the way to go. > There is a cool website for new joiners: > http://www.debian.org/devel/join/newmaint > Sounds nice too > And their developer's reference is a bit more complete than our > RPM-how-to: > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/developers-reference/ > Yeah documantation of the ways > 3. They have a clear list of what packaging needs to be done: > http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ > > 4. They have guides for writing documentation, website maintenance, > translation, publicity, and quality assurance. > These are all things that are underrated. Especially documentation and > quality assurance. We should make sure that anyone who wants to help > with these types of things feels invited and gets full credit where due. > http://www.debian.org/devel/website/ > http://qa.debian.org/ > > While debian still sucks in many ways (hehe), I think we could learn a > lot from their community model, and get more done in less time, and > attract a lot more help. > > Austin Yes I'm impressed by the organisation. Every little detail that get on my nerves currently with mandrake is solved there. We need organisation !! -- Regards Steffen ____________________ counter.li.org : #296567. machine: 181800 vdr-box : 87 ____________________ Please dont CC me, since if I have replied I'll watch the tread. Both mails will be filtered to the ML-folder. Thanks
