On Sunday 30 July 2006 22:28, Dan Meltzer wrote: > 1) Users can submit patches/ideas to bugs.g.o at whatever frequency > they desire, contributing to gentoo casually.
load up your browser and check out how many bugs are assigned to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' opening a bug, putting together an ebuild/patches/etc..., and then watching it sit there and bitrot for weeks, months, and in the extreme case years certainly is anything but encouraging especially considering that by the time a developer gets an interest in the posted ebuild, the ebuild/patches/etc... are now bitrotted and need just as much work to get them up and working with the latest release > 2) Users can take the quizzes and become a developer our developer system does not cater to the "one package per developer" organizational style ... as such, would be maintainers need to learn a lot more about Gentoo than they may ever actually need plus the timeframe from saying "hey i'd like to develop" to actually getting your own commit access is heftier than many would like to undertake ... of course this system is by design to try and weed out flakes and make sure that people granted access to the whole tree can be pretty well trusted -mike
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