On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 08:35:40PM +0100, Stephen Bennett wrote: > On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:03:29 -0700 > Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ok, but most "active contributors" are people that submit ebuilds to > > devs and know nothing about the structure/policy/whatever about > > ebuilds. If you're not a dev, you're probably not going to worry > > about revision bumps. If you're a dev without alternate arches, > > you're probably not going to know about how other arches can get > > screwed by improper pic handling. > > > > To conclude, active contributors are generally in a focused > > environment. The quiz is there to help show them the global way of > > handling things. > > That problem can be solved by giving new developers access to a > 'sandbox' branch of the tree, and have a more experienced dev merge > their changes into the live tree having checked them for sanity. Once > they've proved themselves there, they can be given access to the main > tree if appropriate. > > Of course, this relies upon using a VCS for the tree that handles > branches and merging sanely, which should be doable with Subversion if > the issues it had last time this was tested have been or can be > resolved. > -- This solution also needs experienced developers with lots of free time on their hands.. And try as I might, I can't think of many people that fits that description.
Regards, Bryan Østergaard -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
