Hello Layne, On Monday 28 March 2011 22:15:19 Layne Edwards wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:44:36 +0200, Mike Baker <m...@openwrt.org> wrote: > > As far as the topic of being a developer and getting commit access > > goes, it's pretty straight forward; don't ask for commit access, you > > don't need it to suggest a patch. When you've absolutely flooded the > > existing developers with good code and proven that it's a waste of > > time to supervise you then you'll probably have commit access forced > > upon you. > > Mike, > > I understand what your saying... you don't want to give commit access > to anyone who just wants to get in patch, but only those who have > contributed regulary (and will continue to contribute) and have proven > to be competent. However, it also sounds like your suggesting that > OpenWrt doesn't need any more developers... that you've currently got it > covered. I think some of the concerns are that patches aren't be > addressed in a timely manner (or at all), probably because the > developers are too busy. So this is why I believe users are asking for > commit access.
I understand your position, but no, OpenWrt needs more contributor, because we have more and more stuff to maintain. > > On another note, my main gripe was not that I was denied commit access, > but that my request was completely ignored. A simple response of "no" > or "please contribute some more first" (or anything) would have been > nice. There's a lot of OpenWrt users that contribute regularly to the > project, whether it be testing, patching, wiki or forum support... let's > not forget about the little guys. The answer I would give you now is: your contributions on ramips (and other) are more than welcome, and wait a bit more until you have proven to be a trustworthy contributor (I have no doubt you are) and you might get commit access. Probably one thing that we are missing is kind of a contributor guide something much more simple than the debian developper and social guide, but still something which explains how and when to become an OpenWrt commiter. -- Florian _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
