Re: Volume on -devel
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> At the risk of offending, as one of the non-developers lurking on this
> list, I think the value to the developer-in-embryo is very real. I'm
> trying to figure out a way to contribute and learn some of the issues of
> Debian development. I also think that non-developers have no business
> posting to the list except in rare circumstances. There may also be a few
as another developer-in-embryo (fwiw, my developer app goes in the day
yall switch from rsa for pgp/gpg keys) i have to agree with half of
your opinions. people who are going to become developers soon, or have
gotten their apps in but they haven't quite gotten through the red
e-tape yet, deserve to post if they know what they're doing. (on that
note, i hope that if i make exceedingly inappropriate &/| generally
dumbassed posts, someone will tell me about it privately, so that i
stop.) further there are people who are themselves really unaffiliated
with the project but who have a valid reason to communicate with the
developers; we could set up a debian-external list or something for
them, but i don't think it's really necessary or appropriate. ian's
concern seemed to be that there's a high trolling level or similar; i
personally don't think it's too bad but if we wanted hard numbers, we
should look at the bottom of the list of non-developer postings
grouped by developer; based on the top i determine that 267 postings
this month were made by non-developers who made less than ten posts,
and 211 were one of a non-developer's <5 posts (presuming joey put all
the non-developers who tied at five in the list, so this may be
slightly or vastly off), for a total of 48% rare posters among
non-developers. by contrast, only 49% (569) of developer postings came
from developers who made less than 15 posts this month. i have no idea
whether this is at all significant or not, but i felt like spouting
some more junk ;)
ok, i'm done now.
- --phouchg
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