On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:26:07PM +0000, Miod Vallat wrote: > > Is there a list similar to Linux kernel janitors also for OpenBSD? It's a > > list > > of tasks for which you don't have to be experienced in the particular OS > > internals to be able to complete them properly. > > No, there isn't. > > There are, however, two de-facto janitors for the OpenBSD kernels: > martin@ and I. Those janitors, however, are experienced developers. > > Quite frankly, the idea of the janitor being a rookie scares the hell > out of me. How can you trust people if these people admittedly do not > know what they are doing, or why they are doing things one way and not > another?
You cannot, of course. But janitor being a rookie doesn't imply he doesn't know what he's doing. He could be doing a job that doesn't require any special knowledge - like rewriting documentation into a different format, fixing HTML correctness, fixing typos and unclear places in text - or who asks if he isn't sure how to continue properly. CL<
