From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from greylight.firinn.org (12-239-52-172.client.attbi.com [12.239.52.172]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 34C07ABB72 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 09:09:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: (qmail 25678 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Sep 2002 14:14:58 -0000 Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 09:14:57 -0500 From: Mark Bainter To: Fred Van Andel Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] A proposal for discussion Message-ID: <20020928141456.GC31839@firinn.org> Mail-Followup-To: Fred Van Andel , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20020927151320.0186BED8.fred@vanandel.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020927151320.0186BED8.fred@vanandel.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.19-crypto-r7 on a i586 X-PGP-Fingerprint: CF87 F5AA 26AB 9FA2 BBF3 90D0 0DD1 D14C B2DF AD43 Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: c368e406-7994-4bd3-aaf0-bfc150e97c28 X-Archives-Hash: 0716341c33c4444aceeb7de5b31ab312 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. --