On Tue, 20 May 2008, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote:
>>> And as we've seen from the India contest, most people are used to the
>>> process of other open source projects, where you can just toss a patch
>>> over the wall, and not have to go through hours or days of process and
On Tue, 20 May 2008 14:31:34 +0200, John Beck wrote:
> Frank> Why should Sun engineers use different processes for contributing code
> Frank> than non-Sun community members ?
>
> Because they are employees who have direct access to the source tree and thus
> do not need to be sponsored.
fwiw, th
Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote:
>> And as we've seen from the India contest, most people are used to the
>> process of other open source projects, where you can just toss a patch
>> over the wall, and not have to go through hours or days of process and
>> pain to see it integrated - the maintainers of
On Mon, 19 May 2008, Bonnie Corwin wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> FYI, I will not be adding this request to the request-sponsor table
> because this isn't a program for Sun engineers. This program provides a
> way for non-Sun OpenSolaris community members to request a sponsor for
> putbacks to consolida
On Tue, 20 May 2008, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote:
>> As John notes, "soon" we'll have the gate outside of SWAN and sponsors
>> won't be needed anymore :)
>
> Well, once the gate, WebRTI and bug tracking are all outside the SWAN...
>
> But will we give direct commit access
Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote:
> As John notes, "soon" we'll have the gate outside of SWAN and sponsors
> won't be needed anymore :)
Well, once the gate, WebRTI and bug tracking are all outside the SWAN...
But will we give direct commit access to people with no track records or
will we still need a
On Tue, 20 May 2008, Frank Batschulat (Home) wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2008 14:31:34 +0200, John Beck wrote:
>
>> Frank> Why should Sun engineers use different processes for contributing code
>> Frank> than non-Sun community members ?
>>
>> Because they are employees who have direct access to the s
Frank> ... the point is how to perform an opensolaris
Frank> contribution not how to technically perform a putback.
But, at least at present, a putback is a contribution.
Frank> doing that internally is not an opensolaris contribution in terms of
Frank> being a private person with interests in w
(Oops, resending with my Sun address instead of my personal address, so the
list will accept the message...)
Frank> Why should Sun engineers use different processes for contributing code
Frank> than non-Sun community members ?
Because they are employees who have direct access to the source tree
