On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 02:45:09PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> We've often downplayed asking for help in favour of encouraging people
> to *offer* to help, but since we're having problems, it's important to
> try everything we can to overcome them. One of the more effective way
> of getting useful help (as opposed to someone who says they'll help,
> then does absolutely nothing), is to find some specific areas (or tasks)
> that could use help, and then be specific in your request. There are
> plenty of ways to do this, but at the moment, I think the best way is to
> file a RFA (which we're redefining as "Request For Assistance" instead
> of just "Request For Adoption") report against wnpp, with some decent
> information as to what assistance do you want (someone to take over the
> package entirely? a co-maintainer? someone to work on some particular
> area? someone to fix some particular bugs? what skills are required?).
I wonder whether it would be better to have two different labels: RFA
(Request For Adoption) and RFH (Request For Help)?
Julian
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