>On 31.10-08:20, Theo de Raadt wrote:

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>> They don't need a list.  They could already have started coding.  Yet

>> we see how few people actually do start coding.  Instead, they choose

>> to write in english...

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>on the counter-side we appear to have people who can code but are

>unable to communicate productively otherwise.

>

>surely there must be _some_ merit to creating a list of lower level

>development tasks (as dictated by those with experience to judge) to

>encourage people to enter the development cycle.  of course, there

>will be a large attrition rate, most people like the idea but can't

>stick the learning curve.  others may be intelligent and able but less

>confident and just need pointed in the right direction.

>

>obviously the intention should be to try and capture the latter without

>loosing energy on the former.

Lists have been made before, by a few developers.
It did not work then, and it won't work now.
Development is not the same process as writing a whiny mail.