On 9/13/05, Dave Vasilevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 13, 2005, at 6:10 PM, Philip Lamb wrote: > > A quick question as to what the criteria are for giving a developer > > access to commit info files to the fink repository. > > It's been kinda informal up to now, basically after you have a few > packages under your belt some developer will take notice and ask fink- > core to give you developer privileges. I'd say the usual number of > packages it takes is 3 to 10. > > > I have several more that I use locally, and would add to fink > > except that I know that they will languish in the tracker, for want > > of someone to look at them. > > > > How many people on the fink project have access to move info files > > into the cvs repository? Judging by the number of packages in the > > tracker with group "undergoing validation" it seems that there are > > too few. > > You can find the full list by checking the file CVSROOT/avail in > Fink's CVS repository. It seems the current number is 62, which is > quite a lot. However, with 2600 .info files in 10.4-transitional/ > unstable, most of the more involved developers have dozens of > packages to maintain, so it's hard for people to find time to look at > submissions. > > This clearly has caused much suckiness in the tracker. We're well > aware of this, there's even a top-priority bug on the tracker devoted > to dealing with it: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? > func=detail&aid=1286402&group_id=17203&atid=117203 > > > Some of the ideas we've had to speed things up are: > > - Automatic building/validation of packages, to automatically catch > common problems. This would need some work on tools to perform the > auto-building. > > - Mentoring of new developers by existing devs, to focus efforts into > getting submitters ready for full privileges. (Would you like to be > the first to sign up? http://wiki.opendarwin.org/index.php/ > Fink:Mentoring ) > > - Allowing existing devs to give up their packages for adoption by > new devs. This could give new devs a good starting point, and could > lessen the workload on some of our more prolific devs. > > There are some *draft* documents on the wiki that I encourage > everyone to look at and critique: http://wiki.opendarwin.org/ > index.php/Fink#The_new-maintainer_process > > > I'd like to hear any constructive comments about the process, so > press the "reply" button or just drop by #fink. > > Dave > > > >
I added an entry on the mentoring page to suggest that the submitters to be mentored put down their available OS platform(s) so that a 10.4-only mentor isn't trying to help out a 10.3-only submitter, or vice versa. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
