{"id":255,"date":"2007-10-04T10:56:48","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T08:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2007-10-04T10:56:48","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T08:56:48","slug":"selling-debian-tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"Selling Debian tasks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a lot of talks or blog posts (like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmll.info\/video417.html\">Sam&#8217;s talk at RMLL<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ouaza.com\/wp\/category\/contribuer\/\">Rapha\u00c3\u00abl&#8217;s blog posts<\/a> &#8211; both in french), people have been talking about what people could do inside Debian, and how it would help Debian.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t sound like the best approach to me. When describing tasks with the objective of getting potential contributors to pick them up, we should try to make them <i>sexy<\/i>, to tell users what is exciting about them, what they will learn doing those tasks, where satisfaction will come from. We really need to <i>sell<\/i> them better.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, some Debian tasks are mainly grunt work. And for some of them, people just do them because someone has to do them. But I believe that most tasks inside Debian are actually more interesting than outsiders would expect.  For example, I would be very interested in reading why an i18n expert (hint: Christian!) finds i18n sexy &#8230; and I should probably try to write about QA myself.<\/p>\n<p>(As you might have noticed now, the subject of this blog post was misleading on purpose &#8212; chosen so that a lot of people would read the post :P)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a lot of talks or blog posts (like Sam&#8217;s talk at RMLL, or Rapha\u00c3\u00abl&#8217;s blog posts &#8211; both in french), people have been talking about what people could do inside Debian, and how it would help Debian. That doesn&#8217;t sound like the best approach to me. When describing tasks with the objective of getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debianubuntu","category-planetdebian","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}