Fellow Humans, this weekend the trafficserver team added a new committer, which means that i sent out this wonderful template with a link to
https://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html for further information. Who of you remembers getting that email? and who remembers reading it, and weeping softly, because you had no idea what's going on, and how you'll ever stand up to the impossible standards of the demi-gods that just stretched out a finger to you? or is that just me? oh, well… well, one way or another, these walls of text, and i'm using the plural here, because in trafficserver's case we also invite people to the PMC at the same time, which means they also get: https://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html are profoundly unhelpful, out-dated, and to quote rich: 07:40 <+rbowen> igalic: Very discouraging and overwhelming. 07:40 <+rbowen> Almost all of the first block of questions are ... pointless 07:40 <+rbowen> What is an infrathon? Really? That's what a committer needs to know? 07:41 <+rbowen> I find these pages that are just a list of questions to be exactly the wrong way to go about it. 07:41 <+rbowen> I don't even know what the questions mean, as a new committer, let alone care about the answers. 07:42 <+rbowen> Seems that the version control questions should go first anyways. 07:42 <+rbowen> When do I need to use svn lock? 07:42 <+rbowen> um ... what's svn lock? 07:42 <+rbowen> Ah, the answer is "don't do that" 07:42 <+rbowen> Brilliant. 07:42 <+rbowen> This page makes me cry. But! There's a silver-lining on the horizon here: 07:43 <+rbowen> On the bright side, nobody is ever going to find these documents on their own. So I'd like to solicit some help fixing these pages to contain useful information… -- Igor Galić Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 Mail: i.ga...@brainsware.org URL: http://brainsware.org/ GPG: 8716 7A9F 989B ABD5 100F 4008 F266 55D6 2998 1641
