Hi guys, First of all, thanks to all three of you standing in the DPL election this year. I know it's a daunting task! :-)
I've already seen some debate about how we could/should attract more contributors, which is a perennial question in Debian. I personally don't think we're ever likely to "solve" that issue permanently, but it's clearly something that's always going to be very important for us. I have a related question, but more on the opposite end of the spectrum I suppose: Are we strict enough with our existing contributors? When we're trying to work together as best we can to make the Universal Operating System happen, what could/should we do with contributors who hinder our work? Sometimes that hindrance is inadvertent, sometimes it seems deliberate. At other times it looks like we have developers who are just not paying attention to what they're doing or who just don't care about the goals of the project. Occasionally we see direct action to censure or even expel DDs, but these are only ever in the most blatant of cases. By the time that happens, large amounts of damage may be done to the project: delayed releases, lost users, loss of motivation for other contributors. I'm wondering: is this something that you think is a real problem, and if so what do you think we could do about it? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Support the Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression: http://www.eff.org/cafe/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130325162223.ga11...@einval.com
