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On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 01:36:24PM +1000 or thereabouts, Andrew Cowie wrote: |
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> Hyperbole aside, I think that this is Jeff's point: there is no obvious |
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> or effective way for power users (ie people who have their shit together |
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> who don't happen to be Gentoo developers) to do so. |
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[snip] |
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> So seriously: what is an enthusiast to do? |
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become a developer. That's what the other ~200 of us did. |
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The word "developer" is a bad one as it has a narrow focus compared with |
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what all of us really do. You don't have to speak C, python, perl or even |
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bash to be a valuable developer. One of our core strengths as a |
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distribution is our documentation. We *always* need more documentation |
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writers, especially for specialized projects. |
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Then there's recruiting, infrastructure, security, etc. none of which |
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require a great deal of "development" in the traditional sense of the word. |
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Believe me, there's plenty of work to go around. |
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--kurt |
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