On 11/8/05, Trevor Harmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 8, 2005, at 3:21 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > > > The primary question isn't "Do you know how to commit to CVS?" (though > > that's definitely an asset!), but rather "Do you know enough about > > Fink and how it works so that the packages you commit will generally > > be reliable?" > > Agreed. But how do I go about proving that I meet this description? > It seems very subjective. (What does "generally reliable" mean?) > > Perhaps some kind of objective qualification should be defined. For > instance: "Must be the maintainer of at least 5 packages and must > have submitted at least 10 packages to the tracker that were > successfully validated by a core developer." If a developer meets > that description, then he or she can then request CVS access. It may > be arbitrary, but at least it would be formally defined, and it would > lower the barrier of entry while still being restrictive enough, > allowing more developers to help out with commits. > > Here's another proposal: Open up the unstable branches to more > developers while keeping the stable branches closed to everyone but > core developers. (Unfortunately, this may not even be possible with > SourceForge's CVS system.) > > Trevor > > >
That was just my impression. ;-) Maybe -core has an unwritten policy about it. If we could do it your idea would make things easier--give new maintainers access to an "unstable" tree, make the current "unstable" a "testing" tree (in Debianese), and still have stable. -- 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
