<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Emmet Hikory wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:9bd2f8970801190017y16b5c811x4b8e319f7d44452@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Jan 19, 2008 4:58 PM, Charliej wrote: </pre> <pre wrap=""> While it is theoretically possible, nobody has yet succeeded in doing so, and the process of demonstrating sufficient techinical skills and integration with the community typically takes far longer. Separately, what obstacles to you find when working on a single package that you believe would not exist if you were to join MOTU? Ideally, there should be sufficient processes in place to allow you to effectively support a package as a contributor, and any problems encountered likely need to be addressed, whether to support your maintenance of the package before joining MOTU, or to support your maintenance external to MOTU. </pre> </blockquote> I can say this is how my interest in MOTU started as well.  I was interested in maintaining the mythtv packages, and quickly realized how much other stuff related to it was broken.  Most of my MOTU related work now sits in the media stack, with apps that will affect a myth based box and media apps (including those that aren't necessarily used on a myth box).<br> <br> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="80">-- Mario Limonciello <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:superm1@ubuntu.com">superm1@ubuntu.com</a> </pre> </body> </html>