On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 21:49:56 +0200 Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> You don't have to participate to the discussions in the mailing lists > :) You can just contribute code! Even a single patch a month or so is > better than nothing Forgive me for hijacking the thread, but, the “or so” in the above isn’t all that flexible. See section 3.k of <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1&chap=3>. Being required to do something Gentoo-related at least every two months in order to not be considered “inactive” pretty much eliminates any incentive I had to try and become a developer presently. I could certainly see myself picking up three or four packages that I personally care about and maintaining them, but not actually needing to commit anything for a couple of months simply because those packages don’t release anything new very often. Then I’m declared inactive and kicked out because I didn’t commit often enough, simply because I chose to make a small contribution appropriate to my other workload, rather than no contribution at all. Perhaps that’s “your” (collective) intent—to avoid developers who do a tiny bit of work here and there on a few packages, in favour of having a much smaller number of developers who have to handle more packages—which is fine, but it excludes people like me from participating as full developers. -- Christopher Head
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