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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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We have had problems where people sign up in the past and then never |
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do anything and it wastes our time trying to teach them how the tree |
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works. We would rather spend that time helping out developers who |
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like, actually do work. |
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> > > A formal proxy-maintainer could really help in our sometimes blind |
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> > > maintaining duties. |
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> > What would be the difference between a "formal proxy-maintainer" and |
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> > how we handle it currently? |
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> It's documented? I hardly know it was possible. I have heard the term |
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> proxy maintainer a few time and offerend to become one without beeing |
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> 100% what it was. I talked about to become a dev only to be able to |
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> maintain a handful ebuilds but was even recommended to not do that due |
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> to QA issues. That kind of turned me off [1]. |
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Granted, that e-mail was from October 2006 ;) |
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> At the same time I go the offer to maintain a package in FreeBSD. I said |
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> yes because it was very simple. So I have been a freebsd ports |
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> maintainer for years, while it took me years to actually take the step |
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> to fill in the quiz, even if i run gentoo on desktop and run my own |
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> distro based on Gentoo. |
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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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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'd probably not do the quiz again but I'd be more than happy to |
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> maintain a few packages. |
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> > Marius |
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> -nc |
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> [1]http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@l.g.o/msg15926.html |
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> PS. The entire thread is kind of interesting to read. |
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