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From: "Nathan L. Adams" <nadams@××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Bugzilla handling for maintainer-wanted things
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:05:13
Message-Id: 43088B44.3040402@ieee.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Bugzilla handling for maintainer-wanted things by Henrik Brix Andersen
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4 Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
5 > And - as I told you the last time you brought this issue up - you're
6 > more than welcome to start reviewing ebuilds and commits as well.
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8 I'm starting to do just that. I've even asked Ciaran to review a
9 particular ebuild I was interested in so that I could learn from it.
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11 > We have a bugzilla which is open to the public, we have an irc channel
12 > [1] (which is even monitored by CIA [2]) for tracking all commits made
13 > to the portage tree... what more do you want?
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15 That is handy, thanks. I don't see the IRC channel listed here:
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17 http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/irc.xml
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19 So I've emailed www@g.o and asked to have it added. :)
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21 > If you so desperately want code review in Gentoo, why don't you do what
22 > every other open source software developer has to do to get his ideas
23 > through: put some work into it yourself?
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25 See above.
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27 > I've been wondering: do your emails on this list represent the view of
28 > the IEEE organization?
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30 Of course not. But the IEEE *is* all about peer review (as all
31 scientists have been for the last few hundred years). And here is a nice
32 high-level article about the benefits of peer review while developing
33 software for the non-believers :)
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35 http://www.visibleprogress.com/peer_reviews.htm
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