questions about kde-quality

[Amir Taaki]

Nice, thanks for your reply :)

On Tuesday 06 March 2007 23:45, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> 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.