On Tuesday 06 March 2007 1:42 pm, Jeremy Hylton wrote: > On 3/6/07, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Raymond Hettinger schrieb: > > > [Phil Thompson] > > > > > >> I think a lot of people care, but many can't > > >> do anything about because the barrier to entry is too great. > > > > > > Do you mean commit priviledges? ISTM, those tend to be > > > handed out readily to people who assert that they have good use for > > > them. Ask the Georg-bot how readily he was accepted and coached. IMO, > > > his acceptance was a model that all open source projects should aspire > > > to. > > > > Indeed. For me, it wasn't "hard" to get tracker rights. I reviewed some > > patches, commented on bugs, posted suggestions to python-dev etc. When I > > asked about tracker rights on python-dev, they were given to me. > > Then, it wasn't "hard" to get commit rights. I contributed some stuff, > > and after a while I asked about commit rights on python-dev, and they > > were given to me on condition that I still let a core dev review inteded > > changes. > > > > As far as I recall, there has been nearly no one who asked for commit > > rights recently, so why complain that the entry barrier is too great? > > Surely you cannot expect python-dev to got out and say "would you like to > > have commit privileges?"... > > You can ask whether we should have a plan for increasing the number of > developers, actively seeking out new developers, and mentoring people > who express interest. Would the code be better if we had more good > developers working on it? Would we get more bugs fixed and patches > closed? If so, it wouldn't hurt to have some deliberate strategy for > bringing new developers in. I can easily imagine someone spending a > lot of time mentoring and a little time coding, but having a bigger > impact that someone who only wrote code.
Thank you - that's exactly what I'm trying to say. Phil _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
