On 3/8/06, Yoav Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hola, > > > it's easy to get good open source coders: it's much harder to find > > good documentors who are willing to contribute to open source > > projects. demand for good documentation is always high but supply is > > typically low. i'm willing to cut good documentors much more slack > > than coders. > > Hypothetically, does slack == commit privileges, or do we want to set > the bar for committership higher? > > If Joe Q. Random emailed us saying he thinks [some currently in > incubation project] is great and he's a technical writer and would > like commit access so that he can write up the docs for it, would he > get that access? Probably not,
i'd say: submit a patch :) given enough good patches, i'd nominate them > but the difference here is that the > proposed documentors and QA people are already part of the team, so > they're not random... > > I also suppose we can always review the status of documentation and > test cases at the end of incubation, see who did what, and accordingly > adjust the commiter list during incubator graduation? isn't this really an issue about the bootstrapping committer lists? should there be any difference between a coder who hasn't hacked a line and a documentor who hasn't written a word? - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
