Jeroen Roovers: > On Sun, 08 Jun 2014 03:05:28 +0200 > Alexander Berntsen <berna...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On 07/06/14 23:08, Jeroen Roovers wrote: >>> You can start fixing bugs immediately. You can check out the >>> sources, write patches and attach the patches to the bug reports. >>> Then all it takes is someone else to review/commit the patches. > >> Hacking an init system is different to hacking e.g. desktop or Web >> programs. > > Exactly nobody suggested that. > > That said, starting with OpenRC probably doesn't give you the easiest > learning curve for getting "into" Gentoo. > >> Unless Daniel happens to be a seasoned veteran init system >> hacker, having a mentor will be a significant boost. > > Lots of people post patches all the time. Whether they're good patches > is up for review, and the lack of mentoring doesn't stop thousands of > others from proposing patches on bugzilla on a very regular basis. > >
The amount of contributors (with real patches and real ebuilds) is constantly decreasing, because our workflow is horrible. I hope you don't actually think that bugzilla is an appropriate review platform. The situation with lack of mentors is more than a small problem. It's a problem for a lot of gentoo internal projects as well where people start at positions they don't understand, because there is no one who did mentor them in that specific area.
