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On Friday 28 April 2006 11:22 am, Ryan Phillips wrote: |
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> I believe we have a problem enticing new devlopers to join. It |
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> shouldn't be difficult in learning how to commit changes to a tree. |
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There's much more involved than more people think, if you'd like I can send |
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you an entire long list of what's supposed to happen. |
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> What is "well versed"? Understanding the ways on how to break the tree? |
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> If that is the case, then we are doing something wrong. |
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Well versed is knowing there's more to the process than just commiting. |
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There's working with upstream, adding patches, continual maintaining, etc. |
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> I am arguing that we don't need testing of potential developers. It |
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> is bad for the community. It is saying that we don't have any faith |
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> with our recruiting process. If we only only worried about tree breakage, |
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> then this is the wrong solution. |
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Sure, then you get this: |
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"Hey can I join?" |
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"OK" |
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"*adds user*" |
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-- 2 weeks later -- |
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"Anyone heard from user?" |
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"No" |
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And heaven forbid they actually took on package maintaining before they left. |
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