From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JYex8-0002Qc-Sl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:09:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 675C5E04A5; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:09:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.158]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 234D3E04A5 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:09:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e21so2491911fga.14 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:09:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:from:to:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; bh=aiI1CtMrRb/UvDgBgxMuFJChSDPRe4GBPawds+CZmGs=; b=BU5ThNrv+lFUW4/Z4+pu1Uo9jNNkSSx8hhmO6zlJYY5Fk/64JG3x66j0UROuWiBrofxxbxluzJYrKnYtxHZzlzphe9qZmTHJczKz8/NFHd5H94Bj8OOtbTPmI+qAIioPQQkjlVX0cODeFISQ0BD4UOvrnljL75bN3IHHxr+14GM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=D2jQ22ebhf28K3wcIKC9cRNNLEVo1vWprxtC4OoPbS6saEa/psJB6uT+ajI6f6oa+eS/VZrqaGul6aTC/hBKwoxmEdqql2yXnEnhj76E3BirtLCy4K/ssPxg3ugPXKe+HsDOQEgvZgsKycmTFDTLehra3OKNa3Gk/nTxD/GYhTo= Received: by 10.86.50.8 with SMTP id x8mr6303847fgx.30.1205143792560; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:09:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.65.211? ( [213.234.126.134]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l12sm7858276fgb.8.2008.03.10.03.09.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:09:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for March From: Natanael Copa To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <20080301103002.A2AE266A22@smtp.gentoo.org> <20080306090209.6d2de54f@gentoo.org> <20080307194852.f6550af2.genone@gentoo.org> <1205125963.7136.28.camel@nc.nor.wtbts.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:09:49 +0100 Message-Id: <1205143789.7136.48.camel@nc.nor.wtbts.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: df02b6ea-a245-4be1-acd0-ba3997cf0490 X-Archives-Hash: dc9a2cc22a00c5d0cc028e2653c3c3ea On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 21:21 -0800, Alec Warner wrote: > On 3/9/08, Natanael Copa wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 19:48 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: > > > > > What exact time constraints and responsibilities are people afraid of? > > > Are those concerns real or just myths? > > > > > > As someone who just sent in the quiz, yes its real concerns. What scared > > me off mostly is the gentoo politics. The entire process to become a > > "gentoo developer" is a scare off. Took me weeks to complete the quiz. I > > want to help, yes, but I do have a life. > > If you have other methods to avoid contributors who suck; I'd like to hear them. I don't have any silver bullets, sorry. > I can certainly invision cvs ACLs if people are worried about that > sort of thing; but it doesn't mitigate the fact that maintainers need > to know what they are doing. ACL's... yuck... git might be an idea though. "signed-off-by", kernel style. Don't have enough experience with gentoo managemet to know if git fit's the management style. (probably not, since its not used already) > Did freeBSD not care if you knew what you were doing? What happens if > you totally screw up your package? What happens if you do something > malicious? I'm a "maintainer" not a "committer". I don't have commit access. -nc -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list