Re: [gentoo-project] Discontinuing the support for GitHub pull requests

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 8:26 PM, Gregory Woodbury <redwolfe@×××××.com>
wrote:

> I apologize for calling the Council inbred. But it would be a sign of
> respect and/or honor to be able to be called something like an
> associate developer with a voting privilege (maybe) and thus be able
> to join teams to contribute more actively. I probably would not
> require anything more than a relay @gentoo.org address, no blogs, no
> personal directory trees or webpages, maybe a directory space for
> uploading large bits of code when needed. Is it worth considering?
>

It's not clear what this would get you. I don't think Gentoo developers
only listen to people who have a @gentoo.org email address -- I would argue
that we listen to people who bring their knowledge and their time to
contribute. So yes, in that sense it is not so meaningful to me as a Gentoo
developer that you contributed to the original SysV; I'm much more
interested in your ability to contribute useful bits and pieces to
discussions on these mailing lists (and yes -- conciseness is an important
consideration for me personally in judging messages to the list), produce
useful bugs and, more importantly patches. The more of those you do, the
more of a "vote" you will be granted.

I'll go on record as saying that I do agree we should do away with the
quizzes, but that's more because I'm more interested in letting people
learn the subset of quiz knowledge they'll need by leaning on their
intrinsic motivation to get stuff done that benefits Gentoo, rather than
putting up a barrier that has no intrinsic value. But still, becoming an
official "developer" is, for me, only the last step in a longer process
showing you have something to contribute to Gentoo.

Cheers,

Dirkjan