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On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 13:55 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> I'm sorry, but I am not OK with just standing by and watching us give |
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> complete access to do anything with no accountability. If you are, |
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> perhaps you really need to rethink your commitment to our users and your |
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> fellow developers. |
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The way the Haskell team manages this is that we don't tell our end |
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users about our testing overlay. So we don't get bug reports from them. |
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We have three outside contributers with write access to the overlay |
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repo. They make changes in consultation with the team. So we're not |
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giving complete access without accountability. |
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We have a couple other users who use the overlay but they know what |
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they're doing. We don't make the overlay that easy to use on purpose |
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because we don't want inexperienced users using it. So apart from not |
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advertising it, we don't keep digests in the repo. |
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I think the point is that these overlays should be a useful way of |
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getting contributers more closely involved. However we should not |
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encourage end users to use these overlays without thinking. For example |
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using more than one at once seems like a really bad idea. Perhaps if we |
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make them sufficiently hard to use then end users will not use them and |
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we'll just get the contributers we want. |
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Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell herd team lead) |
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email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org |
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