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On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 10:38 -0400, Thomas Cort wrote: |
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> > > - Double the number of developers with aggressive recruiting |
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> > Why do people think that this is a good idea? I have a different one. |
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> > How about we *half* the number of developers, keeping the people who do |
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> > the most work, and let everyone else contribute as members of the |
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> > community? Having developers on projects/teams/herds/whatever that do |
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> > only a few commits a year doesn't do anything but artificially inflate |
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> > our numbers. |
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> Even if someone only does a little bit of work (maintaining a package |
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> or two and only doing one or two commits per month), it is better than |
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> none. Does having active accounts for these people produce very much |
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> extra work for infra or anyone else? I only see it as a benefit to |
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> users (things get done faster) and developers (one less bug to fix). |
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> The only problem I have with low activity developers is when they |
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> don't commit fixes for bugs that are assigned to them in a timely |
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> manner. |
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Basically, the person doing one or two commits a month *do not* need CVS |
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access. They can still *contribute* at their current pace without |
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having CVS access and a nice @gentoo.org email address. All they need |
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is for someone to commit for them, just like every other person who |
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contributes by adding ebuilds/patches/etc to bugzilla. |
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I saw bring in people that *want* to work harder and let the ones that |
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don't contribute like any other user. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |