Hey, I didn't volunteer, just that I bet that the volunteer doesn't even see or know about the difference.
In any case, that looked like a possible penetration test event. No one just should just give permissions away without authentication - I didn't know he was asking for that. I just thought it was help - the first thing I thought was, ok, let's start giving suggestions and guiding feedback on how to move forward. On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 12:24 PM Laura Morales <laure...@mail.com> wrote: > I think you are confusing the roles of "contributor" and "maintainer". > > > > Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2018 at 8:49 PM > From: "Kenneth Adam Miller" <kennethadammil...@gmail.com> > To: laure...@mail.com > Cc: a...@lrde.epita.fr, help-bison@gnu.org, james....@pentest.nz > Subject: Re: Co-Maintainer > > I know that's what I thought. Some volunteer just came in with their > valuable time and got turned away. GNU is a free software organization - > part of their life blood is volunteers. Just because someone doesn't have a > background in that particular thing doesn't mean they should be dismissed. > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 7:22 AM Laura Morales <laure...@mail.com[mailto: > laure...@mail.com]> wrote:Is this sarcastic? Is this a passive-aggressive > way to say something? I don't really understand the message. > > > > Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2018 at 9:01 AM > From: "Kenneth Adam Miller" <kennethadammil...@gmail.com[mailto: > kennethadammil...@gmail.com]> > To: a...@lrde.epita.fr[mailto:a...@lrde.epita.fr] > Cc: help-bison@gnu.org[mailto:help-bison@gnu.org], james....@pentest.nz > [mailto:james....@pentest.nz] > Subject: Re: Co-Maintainer > Yeah, we just have too much of that 50$ an hour labor here lying around. No > need to just adopt someone else's free hours and enthusiasm, no matter how > small the favor is. > > I have some thing like 20 different research ideas and small helpful tasks > that I could just write about in the space of 15 minutes each day! > > How experienced are you? Do you have a resume? How much time do you have > that's free? Does it have to be bison or can it be a subject of another > interest, provided it suits your fascination? > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 9:41 PM Akim Demaille <a...@lrde.epita.fr[mailto: > a...@lrde.epita.fr]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Le 17 août 2017 à 12:47, James Kay <james....@pentest.nz[mailto: > james....@pentest.nz]> a écrit : > > > > > > Kia ora, > > > > > > I saw that this package was looking for co-maintainers. > > > I’m happy to help, I'm a CS student in my final year at University. > > > > Hi James, > > > > Sorry we did not answer before. > > > > Help might still be needed, but before being a potential maintainer, > > you have to show some activity around bison. For instance, come and > > answer questions on the mailing lists, handle bug reports, submit > > patches, etc. > > > > Cheers! > > _______________________________________________ > > help-bison@gnu.org[mailto:help-bison@gnu.org] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bison > _______________________________________________ > help-bison@gnu.org[mailto:help-bison@gnu.org] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bison[https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bison][https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bison%5Bhttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bison%5D] > <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bison%5Bhttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bison%5D%5Bhttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bison%5Bhttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bison%5D%5D> > _______________________________________________ help-bison@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bison