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On Sunday 30 July 2006 22:28, Dan Meltzer wrote: |
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> 1) Users can submit patches/ideas to bugs.g.o at whatever frequency |
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> they desire, contributing to gentoo casually. |
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load up your browser and check out how many bugs are assigned |
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to 'maintainer-wanted@g.o' |
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opening a bug, putting together an ebuild/patches/etc..., and then watching it |
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sit there and bitrot for weeks, months, and in the extreme case years |
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certainly is anything but encouraging |
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especially considering that by the time a developer gets an interest in the |
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posted ebuild, the ebuild/patches/etc... are now bitrotted and need just as |
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much work to get them up and working with the latest release |
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> 2) Users can take the quizzes and become a developer |
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our developer system does not cater to the "one package per developer" |
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organizational style ... as such, would be maintainers need to learn a lot |
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more about Gentoo than they may ever actually need |
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plus the timeframe from saying "hey i'd like to develop" to actually getting |
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your own commit access is heftier than many would like to undertake ... |
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of course this system is by design to try and weed out flakes and make sure |
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that people granted access to the whole tree can be pretty well trusted |
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-mike |