On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:41:35PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 11:54:59AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > Frankly, FreeBSD has too many cooks, and not enough bottle washers; > > this is a euphimism for saying that all anyone with a commit bit > > seems to want to do any more is write new code, and no one is > > willing to take on the integration and maintenance tasks. > > The euphemism sucks, but the point is there. The problem here has > nothing to do with commit bits. People who do the dirty work and > do it in a way that demonstrates that they can do it unattended > are given commit bits. The problem is that after a certain amount > of dirty work someone either goes away or, if given a commit bit, > moves on to more interesting things to waste time on. > > There is also a problem in that the dirty work, even if done in a > way that demonstrates that the person has skills, is not always > recognised as important. The recognition has to come from within > that part of the developer community that has commit bits, because > you need someone with a commit bit to actually commit the stuff. If > noone with a commit bit recorgnises the dirty work as important, > it's not going to be committed and the person who has done the dirty > work is not recognised as someone who is worthy of a commit bit > because none of his work has been committed.
And to add to the complexity the non-committer providing patches has a much better chance of obtaining his/her own commit bit if the patches are committed to the repo. That is the (in?)famous track-record that has been discussed before that is one of the gating factors for a commit bit. Puzzling.. to say the least.. Wilko -- | / o / /_ _ FreeBSD core team secretary |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
