On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 07:18:31PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> Amen to that. Maybe we should not direct newcomers to wnpp but instead >> to a list of wishlist bugs tagged help (for newbies), and optionally to >> a list of RC bugs tagged help (with the warning "not for the faint of >> the heart"). > >I suggest to instead more narrowly guide them towards *recent* *RFP* >bugreports rather than WNPP bugreports in general.I think suggesting people to create and maintain packages that they will not be using themselves is a bad idea.I think so too: We should pick work that we can find passion for. Sorry if that was not obvious.
Right, that's another way to read what you wrote. Sure, I just don't think that looking through RFPs trying to find something you haven't heard of but will want to use, while not a bad idea per se, will be usually fruitless.
All in all, I have a moderately strong opinion that the only good idea for a new contributor to create and maintain a package in Debian (not counting cases where e.g. their employer is paying them for this work) is when they were planning in advance to use that software on a Debian system and they didn't write that software themselves.
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