On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:50:49PM +0100, George Prowse wrote: > That assumes the system is working perfectly and the whole fact that > we are having this discussion would go against that. > > From what i've read in the community, lots of people would have no > problems helping out maintaining packages, they just don't want the > baggage that comes with it. > > You could say they're lazy or they're not the "type of developers > you want" but at the end of the day they're just different > developers, most of whom probably just want to make sure the > packages they like are in the tree and updated.
Which is all well and good -- the "you wrote some ebuilds so here's your commit privs and @gentoo.org" approach to recruitment worked great when Gentoo had a few dozen developers. Today QA is a bit more important, and development is often rather more complex than "new version, bump the ebuild" -- it's important that new developers have a firm understanding of ebuild complexities. I have no dog in this fight, I don't even like resurfacing to post to -dev. Just here to offer some insight on why we originally kept the quiz system.
