The clarification helps. Thanks to all of you code warriors
who
contribute to these products!
Jim
On Jun 7, 2007, at 3:46 AM, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> Welcome new subscriber!
>
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> You may be here as a "potential new contributor to
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That's something of
> a
> historical accident and something we are trying to
clean up by giving
> this
> list a single charter topic (see below). Right now,
newcomers issues
> are fine
> here in spite of the charter, though we'll try to deal
with common
> questions
> immediately.
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> If you *are* a potential new contributor:
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> - in general, we find that people with "an itch to
scrath" do better
> (since
> they are motivated to scratch) that people who
"just want to help"
> since we
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reply to "I
> want to
> help" with "Fix bug #124763" since,
well, that's not very useful for
> new
> contributors.
> - what *is* useful for new contributors are the pages
on
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around. It's got
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> This list's charter is:
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> Discussing KDE's quality checking infrastructure and
tools, which
> mostly
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don't just talk
> or
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> probably
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