On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 18:53:03 -0500 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Me too, but I still would enjoy to see that my opinion (in regards to newcomers, novices, ...) is taken seriously. I'm very interested in that project mentioned by Gustavo Franco in a recent thread (the one about getting the voice of the community in the project). Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
