REVU: Automated Package Checks

[Kjeldgaard Morten]

On 23/01/2009, at 18.17, Jordan Mantha wrote:

... a long post with points that I agree with and others that I don't.  
A very good outset for discussion!  Just a short comment on one of  
your points, Jordan:

> 1) New contributors are not to be encouraged to package from scratch.
> If somebody wants to go for it anyway, they will be expected to be the
> primary maintainer of the package and should give a rationale beyond
> "dunno, I just wanted to package something" for including it in
> Ubuntu. MOTU documentation should be fairly clear that generally
> people should try some other packaging tasks before try to package
> something from scratch.

I agree that new people should be pointed in a different direction,  
which is why I have drafted a new "getting started" document with the  
specific purpose of getting people involved with things other than  
packaging new stuff. The document is still quite imperfect and it  
would be good to get more ideas and more contributions!

   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GettingStartedDraft


Go edit! Specifically, it would be nice to get more qualified input  
from folks in the bugsquad, the locos and in the ubuntu art teams!

Cheers,
Morten

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Morten Kjeldgaard <mok0 at ubuntu.com>
Ubuntu MOTU Developer
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