Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

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.

Doug.


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