On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 21:21 -0800, Alec Warner wrote: > On 3/9/08, Natanael Copa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 19:48 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: > > > > > What exact time constraints and responsibilities are people afraid of? > > > Are those concerns real or just myths? > > > > > > As someone who just sent in the quiz, yes its real concerns. What scared > > me off mostly is the gentoo politics. The entire process to become a > > "gentoo developer" is a scare off. Took me weeks to complete the quiz. I > > want to help, yes, but I do have a life. > > If you have other methods to avoid contributors who suck; I'd like to hear > them.
I don't have any silver bullets, sorry. > I can certainly invision cvs ACLs if people are worried about that > sort of thing; but it doesn't mitigate the fact that maintainers need > to know what they are doing. ACL's... yuck... git might be an idea though. "signed-off-by", kernel style. Don't have enough experience with gentoo managemet to know if git fit's the management style. (probably not, since its not used already) > Did freeBSD not care if you knew what you were doing? What happens if > you totally screw up your package? What happens if you do something > malicious? I'm a "maintainer" not a "committer". I don't have commit access. -nc -- [email protected] mailing list
