Alejandro, I think you're right and I pinged Joel offlist and he agreed ... but plz give us a little while to rectify this, as many tasks loom !!!
ben g On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Alejandro Dubrovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 07:09 -0700, David Hart wrote: > > The process to join opencog-dev is simple. The team requires that > > applicants submit patches and interact constructively with the team > > (both typically via IRC) before being given commit access (e.g. the > > staging branch or other team branches). Note that anyone may make > > public working branches pulled from OpenCog code without joining the > > opencog-dev team! > > Right, but why does the dev list have to be tied to being a member of > the opencog-dev team? I think this makes it much harder for casual > contributors to exist. While I don't have the time to be a developer on > the project, I would check trunk/main/staging/whatever out frequently > and fix odds and ends, but not being able to read the list makes it much > harder to know what is going on (yes, I know the archives are open > through a web interface, but reading email lists through a circa > late-90s looking web interface is very painful). Couldn't we at least > get read-only access without having to also have commit access to the > tree? > > (True, my contribution wouldn't be massive, but there could be a lot of > people in my position, and at least gathering from other open-sourcish > projects, the aggregate contribution by this tail could be significant. > It also helps in upselling people up to more serious development) > > > PS gratuitious, ignorant, and possibly inflamatory comment, just > because i don't get to exercise my rant priviliges often enough these > days: the flamewar between linas vs the rest of the world seems from > the outside to be just a standard culture clash between someone who is > too accustomed to the open-source style in-your-face show-all-warts > development vs the more typical corporate development where people just > want to show their best work to the public > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OpenCog General & Scientific Discussion List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/opencog?hl=en > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -- Robert Heinlein
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