Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

[Caleb Tennis]

> Basically, the person doing one or two commits a month *do not* need CVS
> access.  They can still *contribute* at their current pace without
> having CVS access and a nice @gentoo.org email address.

Sorry, but as a dev who has lurked in the shadows for a long time, this
simply isn't globally true.  Sometimes there are packages which the dev
takes over that nobody else who is a developer wants or has time to work
on.  This happened to me when all of a sudden nobody was on the ruby herd
anymore.  All of my requests went unanswered.  So I simply took it over.

I really appreciate the handful of devs who do the most commits, but why
would you want to add even more to their plates by removing a bunch of the
developers who handle smaller stuff.  I simply don't have the time anymore
to be as active as I used to be years ago.  But I still do contribute as
much as I can: I keep Qt, Ruby, Ice, and some KDE packages updated.  If
you want to take away my CVS access because I'm not a power committer
anymore it won't hurt my feelings, but I can't imagine how it helps Gentoo
in any way.

I'll offer a counter proposal: I don't play games on the computer, and
they're definitely not required for a working Linux distribution, so I
think we should just get rid of all games packages.  Let's focus our
efforts more on the necessities.

My point is that as long as it's of sufficient quality, it's silly not to
accept the gratis work that someone's willing to do, be it in putting
games into the distribution or making a small number of commits to keep a
certain subset of packages up to date.

Caleb

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