Co-maintainersip policy for Fedora Packages

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

>> What about an IRC teach-in?  What if we had a couple of packagers who,
>> once a month or so, took a couple of hours to run a packaging tutorial in
>> real time?
>
> "Learning by doing" and especially the part "*making errors* and learn
> from them" (¹) is IMHO important, especially for packaging.
>
> In other words: I don't think a IRC packaging tutorial will be a big
> help as those that will give that tutorial will probably be experts
> already and experts often forgot all those small errors they did in the
> beginning.

What if we're teaching by leading newbies through the packaging of actual 
orphaned/wishlist packages?

--g

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