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This time I'll say something useful :) |
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Nathan, you seem to be misunderstanding open source. You get the "I |
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can ask for features or suggest things" part, but not that "I can add |
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features or do things part". No one is stopping you, or me, or an |
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average joe, or George W. Bush, from "peer reviewing". You can see |
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the basic things that are commonly wrong by looking at a few |
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"resolved""wontfix" bugs with ciaranm as the commenter. Most make the |
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same mistakes. After seeing this, what is to stop you from either |
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manually looking through the tree, or writing a script to check for |
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you, and fixing some of the problems, submitting them as bugs when |
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they are fixed. I cannot imagine any developer would say no to a |
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well written ebuild, they may wait for a version bump to switch to it, |
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but they most likely would not ignore it all together. |
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Hell, maybe if you do a good enough job, and show enough devotion, the |
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gentoo guru's will even think about making you a developer in charge |
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of fixing those things. who knows? |
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On 8/21/05, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Donnie Berkholz posted <4308513C.1070303@g.o>, excerpted below, on |
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> Sun, 21 Aug 2005 03:02:36 -0700: |
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> > Nathan L. Adams wrote: |
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> > | What I see with Gentoo is this 'cathedral' being built where only those |
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> > | folks who have been 'approved' or 'blessed' as being l33t enough are |
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> > | allowed to review the code and actually cause a positive change when |
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> > | some bug is found. If you believe Chris Gianelloni's argument, then |
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> only |
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> > | those blessed developers who are also blessed by a particular group |
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> > | within Gentoo are allowed. Eventually the meritocracy degrades into a |
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> > | popularity contest. |
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> > Our code is all available in the portage tree or ViewCVS, and so are all |
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> > the ebuild bugs in Bugzilla. Nobody's stopping anybody else from |
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> > reviewing any submissions or filing new bugs. It's just a question of |
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> > who makes (and therefore approves of) the actual commit. |
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> > I don't see where your cathedral is coming from. |
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> I'm with Donnie on this. Gentoo's quite the bazaar, IMO. When I read |
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> that cathedral thing, my reaction (strong enough to cause a verbal |
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> outburst as I read your post), was "Oh, brother! You don't have any |
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> idea!" That as I was physically shaking my head. I don't know where you |
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> got the idea that Gentoo's a cathedral at all, as it sure looks to be a |
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> bazaar from this viewpoint. You /totally/ lost me with that one. I |
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> couldn't disagree more! |
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> Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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> and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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> http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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