Julian Gilbey wrote: > I've just had a thought, prompted by a new potential developer's > question on the -qa list. When the floodgates reopen soon, we're > going to have a lot of new developers and not that many easy packages > to work on initially. I know for myself that packaging a > straightforward, essentially clean and bug-free initial package, > taking it through the manual -> debhelper transition, etc., was a > really good learning experience. I guess that it would be a wise idea > for seasoned developers to consider offering simple packages to the > incoming new maintainers so that they can learn the packaging tools > and the intricacies of policy requirements without having to cope > initially with a large number of bug reports. I would be happy to > hand on some of my simple packages to the new developers and even do > some handholding. > > Anyone else think similarly?
Actually yeah. I was thinking about dropping 20 or so games for new maintainers who wanted something easy to get started on. -- see shy jo