On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 10:38 -0400, Thomas Cort wrote: > > > - Double the number of developers with aggressive recruiting > > > > Why do people think that this is a good idea? I have a different one. > > How about we *half* the number of developers, keeping the people who do > > the most work, and let everyone else contribute as members of the > > community? Having developers on projects/teams/herds/whatever that do > > only a few commits a year doesn't do anything but artificially inflate > > our numbers. > > Even if someone only does a little bit of work (maintaining a package > or two and only doing one or two commits per month), it is better than > none. Does having active accounts for these people produce very much > extra work for infra or anyone else? I only see it as a benefit to > users (things get done faster) and developers (one less bug to fix). > The only problem I have with low activity developers is when they > don't commit fixes for bugs that are assigned to them in a timely > manner.
Basically, the person doing one or two commits a month *do not* need CVS access. They can still *contribute* at their current pace without having CVS access and a nice @gentoo.org email address. All they need is for someone to commit for them, just like every other person who contributes by adding ebuilds/patches/etc to bugzilla. I saw bring in people that *want* to work harder and let the ones that don't contribute like any other user. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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