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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 02:55:46
Message-Id: 200607302252.27370.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed) by Dan Meltzer
1 On Sunday 30 July 2006 22:28, Dan Meltzer wrote:
2 > 1) Users can submit patches/ideas to bugs.g.o at whatever frequency
3 > they desire, contributing to gentoo casually.
4
5 load up your browser and check out how many bugs are assigned
6 to 'maintainer-wanted@g.o'
7
8 opening a bug, putting together an ebuild/patches/etc..., and then watching it
9 sit there and bitrot for weeks, months, and in the extreme case years
10 certainly is anything but encouraging
11
12 especially considering that by the time a developer gets an interest in the
13 posted ebuild, the ebuild/patches/etc... are now bitrotted and need just as
14 much work to get them up and working with the latest release
15
16 > 2) Users can take the quizzes and become a developer
17
18 our developer system does not cater to the "one package per developer"
19 organizational style ... as such, would be maintainers need to learn a lot
20 more about Gentoo than they may ever actually need
21
22 plus the timeframe from saying "hey i'd like to develop" to actually getting
23 your own commit access is heftier than many would like to undertake ...
24
25 of course this system is by design to try and weed out flakes and make sure
26 that people granted access to the whole tree can be pretty well trusted
27 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed) Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>