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On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 10:10 -0400, Nathan L. Adams wrote: |
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> I'm starting to do just that. I've even asked Ciaran to review a |
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> particular ebuild I was interested in so that I could learn from it. |
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That's still not *you* doing the actual work - that's you requesting |
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someone else to review your work - which is good, but a totally |
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different topic which doesn't really belong in this thread, imho. |
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> That is handy, thanks. I don't see the IRC channel listed here: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/irc.xml |
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> So I've emailed www@g.o and asked to have it added. :) |
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Ok. |
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> > If you so desperately want code review in Gentoo, why don't you do what |
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> > every other open source software developer has to do to get his ideas |
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> > through: put some work into it yourself? |
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> See above. |
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See above what? The part about you requesting someone to review your |
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ebuild? |
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> Of course not. But the IEEE *is* all about peer review (as all |
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> scientists have been for the last few hundred years). And here is a nice |
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> high-level article about the benefits of peer review while developing |
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> software for the non-believers :) |
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I'm confident that most Gentoo developers agree that peer review is a |
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nice concept - but... I think you need to sit down and participate in an |
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open source project to fully understand how it works. You can't just |
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step forward and say "this is good, you need to do this" as a bystander |
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- that's not how the open source spirit works. |
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If you on the other hand step forward and say something like "I've spent |
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the last x months reviewing your code and developed a small set of |
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utilities for doing so, would you be interested in a wider use of |
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these?" I think you'd get a much better welcome. |
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In the open source community this is also known as "show me the code" as |
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in: if you want something done, you'd better be ready to back it up with |
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code and/or actions. Basically, you'll need to put more than words into |
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this, if you want to see it happen. |
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Regards, |
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Brix |
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Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@g.o> |
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