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From: Mark Bainter <mark-gt@cymry.org>
To: Fred Van Andel <fred@vanandel.net>
Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] A proposal for discussion
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 09:14:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020928141456.GC31839@firinn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020927151320.0186BED8.fred@vanandel.net>

Fred Van Andel [fred@vanandel.net] wrote:
[snip]
> through the support forums to realize that. A lot of these people
> may not be qualified to be a full-fledged member of the core
> development team but they still have skills/time to offer back to
[snip]

Or maybe they are qualified, but don't have time to take it on 
full time and could throw their effort into ocaisional short term
projects.

> take up so much time.  By taking some of the workload off of the
> developers we can allow them to do what they do best, and that is
> to develop and refine the features that have attracted us to Gentoo
> in the first place.

Sounds like a great idea to me.  I would point to the kernel-janitor
project as an additional example of the sort of thing this could
do.  We don't have as much cleanup right now, but I'm sure there
are points where there are time consuming but simple/repetitive 
tasks that could be offloaded to non-core members.

-- 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-28 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-27 22:13 [gentoo-dev] A proposal for discussion Fred Van Andel
2002-09-28 13:19 ` Alan
2002-09-28 14:14 ` Mark Bainter [this message]
2002-09-30  4:12 ` k
2002-09-30  4:08   ` Mike Frysinger
2002-09-30  5:37     ` Fred Van Andel

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