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On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:50:49PM +0100, George Prowse wrote: |
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> That assumes the system is working perfectly and the whole fact that |
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> we are having this discussion would go against that. |
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> From what i've read in the community, lots of people would have no |
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> problems helping out maintaining packages, they just don't want the |
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> baggage that comes with it. |
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> You could say they're lazy or they're not the "type of developers |
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> you want" but at the end of the day they're just different |
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> developers, most of whom probably just want to make sure the |
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> packages they like are in the tree and updated. |
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Which is all well and good -- the "you wrote some ebuilds so here's |
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your commit privs and @gentoo.org" approach to recruitment worked great |
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when Gentoo had a few dozen developers. |
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Today QA is a bit more important, and development is often rather more |
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complex than "new version, bump the ebuild" -- it's important that new |
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developers have a firm understanding of ebuild complexities. |
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I have no dog in this fight, I don't even like resurfacing to post to -dev. |
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Just here to offer some insight on why we originally kept the quiz system. |