On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 05:50:23PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Sunday 04 February 2007 16:38, Ken Heard wrote: > > If the documentation editors are to > > be volunteers, good ones will not be attracted to the project unless > > they are given status in the organization. > > You raise many good points some of which are very true and some of which I do > not completely agree with. This happens to be on the top of things with which > I do not agree... > > The reason why I contribute (be it code, patches, helping on d-u, writing > articles etc.,) to Debian is because I enjoy doing so. Not because one day I > dream of becoming a DD, not because I get good reputation points, not because > I make money out of it etc., If some documentation editor becomes less > motivated to contribute to Debian simply because, there is no official status > given to him, I seriously doubt if his motivation levels remain high after > couple of years...
I would agree with you Raju. I would enjoy working on a doc project but I'm nowhere near enough to being a politition to want any official status. I just enjoy teaching. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]