Jonathan Revusky wrote: > When people do start using their commit privileges they are usually > quite timid about it initially and initiate discussion on your list > prior to doing anything remotely controversial. People typically start > off doing very small localized things. And these things are not very > time consuming for the more established people on the team to review. > > One thing that would be possible is to encourage people to get their > legs by doing things like working on unit tests and javadoc comments > and so on. Most projects, unfortunately, have too little of both of > those things and letting people in to initially work on that is quite > low risk. > > That would provide a way for poeople to gradually get into the swing > of things. I think that any people managing an open source project > have to be thinking about how to get new blood into the project.
Yep; agreed. >>> It's not just working for me. It's working for a lot of people. A lot >>> of people use FreeMarker, you know. >> That's a pretty small sample size, but good :) > Be that as it may, apparently it's infinitely greater than your > experience running open source projects. Hmm, I suppose (although 0 times anything is still 0) but I would hazard a guess that several of the projects I _have_ run have had more committers than many open-source projects (when you're dealing with a company with 50K employees of which somewhere between 5-10% are developers, you naturally end up with a lot of folks :) > Anyway, this is getting sterile. I've made my point. It is my > considered view that this idea that the ability to commit code is > something that needs to be this zealously guarded is not well founded. If you're adding the word "zealously" I agree. > Probably a project like Struts would benefit from drastically lowering > the bar to becoming a committer. Also partially agree depending on how "drastic" it would be. > Actually, it is probable that being politically correct (less likely > to disagree with the current clique) is a greater factor in becoming a > committer than coding prowess is. I'd argue that, but my forehead is starting to leave little red spoogy marks so I won't ;) Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
