On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:31:32PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > Excellent points made by both of you.
> Here are some things that occur to me quickly: > 1) Large projects using $DVCS and making it easy for people that aren't > familiar with $DVCS to learn how to participate in that project. Here I > assume $DVCS to be one of hg, git, darcs, bzr. The "maintainer of record" > in control could be a Linus-like patch reviewer. The instructions are > something akin to what I post at > http://software.complete.org/site/wiki/DarcsGuide and > http://software.complete.org/site/wiki/MercurialGuide Are we still talking about OOo here? OOo is its own barrier to entry. You're not going to get a very "distributed" set of contributors when just building the package from source requires setting aside multiple GB of disk and several hours of CPU time. I believe that, as much as anything, is why there are so few people working on the Debian package; it's just not practical to be a casual contributor to a monolithic package like OOo. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]