Re: Skilled manpower vs. grunt work

2011-01-16 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:44:10PM +, Chris Carr wrote [edited]: > In both cases I ended up "pestering the team with newbie questions" because > of the complexities of d-i and of packaging, respectively - not because I > was unintelligent or unmotivated, nor because I had failed to read the > a

Re: Skilled manpower vs. grunt work

2011-01-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:44:10 + Chris Carr wrote: > > Bug triage doesn't need huge amounts of package-specific skills. It > > just needs the people doing triage to be able to cooperate with the > > maintainer(s). > [snip] > >> Is there an obvious way for people willing to do grunt work to help

Re: Skilled manpower vs. grunt work

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Carr
On 15/01/2011 22:18, Neil Williams wrote: Ben Finney wrote: Neil Williams writes: Can the rest of us now actually ask if there is anything we can do to get more people involved in helping packaging teams which are openly asking for help? […] The problem is a lack of manpower in critical t

Re: Skilled manpower vs. grunt work (was: Why is help so hard to find?)

2011-01-15 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:33:56 +1100 Ben Finney wrote: > Neil Williams writes: > > > Can the rest of us now actually ask if there is anything we can do > > to get more people involved in helping packaging teams which are > > openly asking for help? > […] > > > The problem is a lack of manpower i

Skilled manpower vs. grunt work (was: Why is help so hard to find?)

2011-01-15 Thread Ben Finney
Neil Williams writes: > Can the rest of us now actually ask if there is anything we can do to > get more people involved in helping packaging teams which are openly > asking for help? […] > The problem is a lack of manpower in critical teams. That's not new. Is the requirement for manpower alon