On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 08:18:26AM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote: > Hi Graham, > > Graham> We don't really have a frog meister, so nobody is taking > Graham> responsibility for pushing > > I have another patch waiting, that depends on the first. > > Is there supposed to be a procedure for casual contributers to follow?
No. If that sounds scary, then you have the right reaction. Or rather -- yes, there *is* a procedure. You're supposed to show up, then the frog meister should contact you with any details you missed (such as using our git-cl). Then you're supposed to upload a patch, and the frog meister should keep track of your patch and take care of all the details. But since we don't have a frog meister, this falls down. So yes, you've been doing everything right. We simply don't have anybody who is willing to do ~30 minutes of admin work per week to help casual contributors. (and for the record: no, I am not willing to do that role. I know that I'm the expert on this subject, having mentored over 20 people in lilypond in the past, but I am not at willing to do that job right now) > The other open-source projects (QEMU, Linux Kernel, uClinux) I > contribute to set up a Maintainer for each subsystem, and patches are > submitted to that person to get pushed. In lilypond development, the "frog meister" is our name for "maintainer". But without somebody willing to do that job, we're SOL. > I don't really want to get much more involved in LilyPond than I am already > --- I'm involved in two other open source projects (QEMU and Linux > Kernel at present) that take up most of my (little) free time. --- but > if you wanted to give me commit access, I could undertake to maintain > articulate. Quite understandable. I'll probably give you push access in a few weeks, but that won't solve the general problem faced by casual contributors. To be frank, I'm using you to highlight this problem. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
