M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > BTW: How about having an "incubator" phase for new core devs ? > The new candidate will get commit rights for say 3 months and after those 3 > months, the mentor then suggests whether make the status permanent or not. > > As long as this is stated clearly from the beginning, I don't think people > will > feel offended if they end up not receiving the permanent status, and this will > reduce the barrier for entry a lot. Learning on the job is a rather common > practice in the industry these days :-)
As someone who received commit rights based entirely (almost?) on willingness rather than contributions, I think this is a great idea. I certainly would not have been at all offended if I'd been told "don't touch anything apart from X and we'll reevaluate in three months." Being clear about it at the start is the important part - having a title like "probationary" or "provisional" makes that pretty easy. Cheers, Steve _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
