On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 11:53 PM, james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: > The grandiose-ness you propose should only come upon graduating from proxy > school, imho. > user-->strong-users-->proxy-->dev pathway.
Pedantic, bureaucratic, procedure-oriented, monolithic, restrictive. Too conservative. What matters is the contribution, and the result. If you don't like how a user makes a contribution, don't accept the pull request, or don't merge his package. Simple. If you think that could turn out to be just a waste of time for them, help them correct their issues; add some documentations to enlighten them and give warnings about wrong practices so they don't blame anyone, and so they can decide whether they would want to contribute or not given the rules presented; but, _don't_ make the steps mandatory. Don't make contributions restrictive. We do already allow people to send pull requests to Gentoo portage's repo in Github, but it seems like they generally only allow patches that fix current packages, not new features or new packages. That's the very reason why I didn't like becoming a dev. The system is too conservative and old-school for me. I avoid projects where collaboration is mandatory. I prefer contributing to a project with open and loosely knit arrangements, and a dynamic system. Rankings, team bonding mean nothing. --- konsolebox
