about new devs (sorta)

[Florin Braescu]

Pe data de Mar 23 Noi 2004 13:53, Jaime Buffery a scris:
> Hello fellow devs!
> Hope all of you are fine (that includes the ones I see and the ones I don't
> :). Well, I have a little proposal: instead of adding a dev each time one
> can show up, why not create the figure of maintainer:
>  * No real acct on espresso
>  * Would have forwarded mail, with a @lunar-linux.org or
>  maintainer.lunar-linux.org or st alike.
>  * Commit priviledges cut down to the modules(s) {,s}he maintains.
>  * If the maintainer proves good, promote to dev, under current devs
>  consensus.
> IMHO, we have a lack of devs to maintain all our userland. Users could
> maintain their own module(s), without being actually part of the core team.
> It would mean outsourcing module maintainment. We can keep a subset of
> modules like gcc, headers or glibc for devs, so noone could touch that.
> Uncritial apps can be maintained by our userbase. It may help get more ppl
> attached to us. As a side note, I don't know what overhead in commit
> configuration that would be. The mail forwarding is obvious ;)
>

  That's what i call cold thinking. Great proposal nestu. I'm with you in this 
matter.

  Florin