Re: [gentoo-server] Portage Maintenance

[Wes Kurdziolek]

Ah, I hadn't seen that.

Andrew Ross wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 01:10, Wes Kurdziolek wrote:
>
>>I hate to ask any more of the Gentoo developers' time, but perhaps we
>>can take a page from FreeBSD: folks interested in becoming developers
>>(even just for the ports tree) have to go through a tutelage period
>>where all the changes they would like to make have to be approved and
>>committed by an experienced developer for a certain amount of time
>>before the new developer gets his or her commit bits. This could help
>>alleviate some of the stress of becoming a package maintainer (writing
>>ebuilds, etc.) w/o your work falling into the black hole that Bugzilla
>>often becomes.
>
>
> That doesn't add much to the existing mentoring and probationary periods
> described here:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1&chap=2#doc_chap3
>
> Cheers
>
> Andrew
>