applying for MOTU membership

[Gauvain Pocentek]

Hello,

Aron Sisak wrote:
> Hi Stefan et. al.,
> 
> Stefan, you ask harder and harder questions. :-)
> 
>> Well, I don't plainly buy the argument, that having "random new
>> packages" is all that bad. Getting in pet packages is imo an
>> incentive for hopefuls to contribute to ubuntu in the first place
>> (and it was definitely nice for me to see my first "own" package in
>>  the archive). Nonetheless I believe that Sarah is right in the
>> mail you quote that we end up with a number of packages in the
>> archive which aren't properly cared for in the long run. Also bug
>> fixing as you wrote is always a needed as well.
> Sorry, I don't wanted to offend anyone. I just wanted to say that this is
> an important area where MOTU(-wannabes) and Desktop Team can cooperate...
> 
>> Now what do you believe are the main reasons that hopefuls rather
>> bring in new packages than fix existing ones? What could you do to
>>  motivate people to spend more time fixing bugs and less on
>> bringing in random new packages?
> Actually doing more difficult work with the same result might be hard to
> motivate. I mean creating / updating a package can be fairly simple,
> in contrast to fixing a bug (and applying the patch and updating the
> package). I guess it is in fact it is based on the good old "coding is
> fun" vs. "fixing bugs is not fun" problem.
> 
> If you did some bug triaging, you might get the idea that "fixing
> bugs can be fun" as well. Now with some package updates behind me, I feel
> motivated to create packages with bug fixes. Maybe because solving
> (even) more complex tasks is fun. Of course there are also bugs with
> patches that "only" need to be packaged.
> 
> These are my own motivations and have hardly any idea how to motivate
> others. Mentoring can prove useful. At least I often feel like
> "doing something" I cannot do (yet). But with a mentor this can be
> possible. Some kind of "MOTU Hug Day" could also be nice. I have had
> the feeling concerning recent Hug Days (held on #ubuntu-devel) that
> beginners are not motivated enough to fix bugs.
> 

+1 from me based on a the good feedback from Daniel H. and Sébastien,
and on the interesting answers given to stefan's harder and harder
questions ;)

Cheers,
Gauvain