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On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 00:53:03 +0100 Ed W <lists@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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| Might there be an option 4 which is that a slightly different system |
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| might stop everyone bitching over the current one and hence avoid |
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| wasting some time? Nope, no idea what that would be, but the thought |
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| does occur when you see some time being wasted on trivial issues... |
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Hrm. Any change would involve adding more complexity. It would probably |
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also involve lots of fixup work on existing code. It's likely not worth |
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the cost. |
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| Is there any possibility that easier low quality contribution makes |
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| the high quality contributions easier? |
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Only to the extent that they get me to write better documentation :) |
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| Look at wikipedia - it's amazing that such high quality work (in |
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| general) can come from lightly peer review material with low barriers |
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| to entry. |
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| Clearly not an appropriate model here, but I can't help wondering if |
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| there is not another way... |
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Well... Sometimes maintainer-wanted ebuilds are worked upon by multiple |
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people. It happens, but not very often. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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