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On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 01:10, Wes Kurdziolek wrote: |
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> I hate to ask any more of the Gentoo developers' time, but perhaps we |
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> can take a page from FreeBSD: folks interested in becoming developers |
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> (even just for the ports tree) have to go through a tutelage period |
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> where all the changes they would like to make have to be approved and |
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> committed by an experienced developer for a certain amount of time |
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> before the new developer gets his or her commit bits. This could help |
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> alleviate some of the stress of becoming a package maintainer (writing |
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> ebuilds, etc.) w/o your work falling into the black hole that Bugzilla |
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> often becomes. |
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That doesn't add much to the existing mentoring and probationary periods |
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described here: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1&chap=2#doc_chap3 |
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Cheers |
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Andrew |
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