questions about kde-quality

[Adriaan de Groot]

On Tuesday 06 March 2007 19:44, Amir Taaki wrote:
> I was browsing the kde sites and happened upon http://quality.kde.org/, it
> is a very nice read for me and I'm interested in some questions.
>
> I'm also a developer working on Crystal Space and generally I've never seen
> this explicit formal joining of projects in oss as ever being effective

I don't think it's effective either. Although the site is nicely set up, the 
rate at which new people show up on this mailing list is very low, and the 
people that I actually see joining the project (or some sub-project) tend to 
show up on the project mailing lists and never know about this one.

People show up here needing direction -- asking generally how to help. Without 
a desire to fix something specific or help in a certain direction to *begin 
with*, I've never seen anyone get that direction from talking here. We try to 
provide useful information to get people started, but that doesn't get them 
attached. Since we do lack a "do this, then that" kind of management for 
potential new contributors without direction, we lose them -- but there's not 
all that many of them.


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