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On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 21:21 -0800, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> On 3/9/08, Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 19:48 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> > > What exact time constraints and responsibilities are people afraid of? |
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> > > Are those concerns real or just myths? |
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> > As someone who just sent in the quiz, yes its real concerns. What scared |
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> > me off mostly is the gentoo politics. The entire process to become a |
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> > "gentoo developer" is a scare off. Took me weeks to complete the quiz. I |
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> > want to help, yes, but I do have a life. |
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> If you have other methods to avoid contributors who suck; I'd like to hear them. |
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I don't have any silver bullets, sorry. |
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> I can certainly invision cvs ACLs if people are worried about that |
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> sort of thing; but it doesn't mitigate the fact that maintainers need |
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> to know what they are doing. |
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ACL's... yuck... git might be an idea though. "signed-off-by", kernel |
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style. Don't have enough experience with gentoo managemet to know if git |
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fit's the management style. (probably not, since its not used already) |
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> Did freeBSD not care if you knew what you were doing? What happens if |
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> you totally screw up your package? What happens if you do something |
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> malicious? |
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I'm a "maintainer" not a "committer". I don't have commit access. |
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-nc |
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