On 11/8/05, Trevor Harmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 8, 2005, at 9:59 AM, Brendan Cully wrote: > > > Let me be honest: I have an axe to grind, since I've got a number of > > my own packages languishing in the submission queue for months. I'm > > grateful for the feedback I've gotten, and eg dmacks has definitely > > improved the quality of my packages. But lbdb probably doesn't need > > another six month's of inspection... > > I'm in the same situation. A number of my packages are still > Undergoing Validation. And likewise, I want to give a big public > thank-you to Daniel Macks, since he appears to be one of the few > (only?) developers who has been validating and committing the > packages I put in the tracker. > > So here's my proposal for solving this problem: Give more people CVS > commit access. If you and I were allowed to help out with checking in > new and updated packages, then that's a good chunk that could be > removed from the tracker right there. Not only would we be able to > remove our own packages, but we'd also be able to help validate and > commit others, too. Now, I'm not as experienced with this as core > developers like Daniel, but I've learned a lot from him lately, and I > do guarantee that if I end up breaking something -- and this is the > only reason why CVS commit access is restricted, right? -- then I'll > be responsive and get it fixed quickly. > > Perhaps we need to review the process of how people are granted > commit access. On the other hand, is there even a process? I'm not > sure what criteria a developer must meet before getting access. I > seem to remember reading something about being the maintainer of some > minimum number of packages, but I can't find any mention of this on > the Fink website now. > > Trevor > > >
There's a starting draft for a process at http://wiki.opendarwin.org/index.php/Fink:Mentoring This is intended to link a maintainer without commits access to a developer who has it--that way you can just nag _them_ about your tracker entries. The "minimum number" thing isn't really a written rule. In practice you just need to make the rounds with your package(s) enough that the developers can see that your package(s) and updates are consistently policy-compliant. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
