Re: Taking care of existing packages

2009-08-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090821160945.gb22...@belanna.comodo.priv.at>, gregor herrmann wrote: >I just think we also have to keep in mind that the proverbial "itch" >that new contributors are trying to "scratch", i.e. why they want to >help in Debian in the first place, is that they are missing a piece >of software th

Re: Taking care of existing packages

2009-08-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:33:54 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > The reason why I posted to both is that I see a trend in -mentors that > many new contributors seem to create an artificial need as a reason to > get their contributions in the distribution and choose to package a new > program. I agree w

Re: Taking care of existing packages

2009-08-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090820133354.gb2...@ime.usp.br>, Rogério Brito wrote: >The reason why I posted to both is that I see a trend in -mentors that >many new contributors seem to create an artificial need as a reason to >get their contributions in the distribution and choose to package a new >program. Instead you

Re: Taking care of existing packages

2009-08-20 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Gregor and everybody else. On Aug 20 2009, gregor herrmann wrote: > [Any reason why this thread happens on both -devel and -mentors?] I am not subscribed to -devel (only to -mentors; I asked to be CC'ed on the original message). The reason why I posted to both is that I see a trend in -mento