On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Tom Hacohen <tom.haco...@samsung.com> wrote: > On 06/01/14 07:22, Stefan Schmidt wrote: >> Hello. >> >> On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 13:14, Cedric BAIL wrote: >>> >>> I would like to give a proper dev access to our git to Sebastian Dröge >>> (slomo on phab) who has been fixing up our emotion gstreamer backend >>> lately (thanks god someone is taking care of it !). As he has already >>> had a history of contributing to other open source software (like >>> gstreamer) and I am by now close to do rubber stamping on his >>> contribution on phab, I do think he will fit well with a developer >>> access. >> >> THis makes me wonder what happened to our probie experiment. You >> requested probie access for some devs a while ago. Did this access >> help them? Are they on a good way to get proper access? >> >> For Sebastian you are asking for full access directly? > > I think the probie thing is still good and useful for many people and > many cases. I think they are still useful and valid. > However, I don't consider probies as a bureaucratic step required for > people becoming full-pledged devs. If cedric vouches for that guy, he > has strong OSS background, and he's taking care of otherwise dead-parts > of the EFL, I don't see a reason why not give him access straight-away.
I do agree here, probie is not in my opinion a bureaucratic hierarchical things. It is mostly a training step for people who are not used to working with OSS technologie. I do trust Sebastian to ask for review if he contribute patch to part he doesn't know as well as gstreamer/emotion. > Probie is meant to be like training wheels, it sounds like Sebastian > needs them. > > I fully support giving him access (based on Cedric's summary), but with > that being said, I do wish I knew him better/was more familiar with his > work. That's easy, work on gstreamer and you will know him very quickly ! :-D -- Cedric BAIL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
