On ke, 2010-09-15 at 10:22 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > I, using my FTPMaster hat, do care a lot that we do not get > $whateveritsname with upload rights that never ever had to show at least > the basic understanding of packaging work. Looking at all the errors > existing Developers do, even longstanding ones, having something like > T&S drop away entirely will be near death. Whoever thinks "it cant be > that bad" should do a month of release team, qa or ftpteam work. You > will think different.
This reminds me: it would be good to improve not just the quality of our packages, but our developers. Developing a Linux distribution involves a lot of skills, and stuff keeps changing all the time. It would perhaps be a good idea to have training sessions within Debian. At the moment, pretty much all training is handled by each developer themselves: they read documentation, or source, and experiment with things. They might write some blog posts, or mail a list, or something. This often works, but I'm sure we can do better. Ubuntu has "developer weeks", where various people give hour-long IRC training sessions on various topics. We could join them, or have our own. Or we could have ad-hoc training sessions, like Debian-Women has done, and and is starting to do again. In addition to training, some collaborative code review might be helpful. debian-mentors is one good place for that, and asking on IRC on #debian-devel would work too. What do others think? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1284541176.2573.77.ca...@havelock
