Re: [gentoo-dev] [Summary] tentative x86 arch team glep

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 00:53:03 +0100 Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com> wrote:
| Might there be an option 4 which is that a slightly different system 
| might stop everyone bitching over the current one and hence avoid 
| wasting some time?  Nope, no idea what that would be, but the thought 
| does occur when you see some time being wasted on trivial issues...

Hrm. Any change would involve adding more complexity. It would probably
also involve lots of fixup work on existing code. It's likely not worth
the cost.

| Is there any possibility that easier low quality contribution makes
| the high quality contributions easier?

Only to the extent that they get me to write better documentation :)

| Look at wikipedia - it's amazing that such high quality work (in 
| general) can come from lightly peer review material with low barriers
| to entry.
|
| Clearly not an appropriate model here, but I can't help wondering if 
| there is not another way...

Well... Sometimes maintainer-wanted ebuilds are worked upon by multiple
people. It happens, but not very often.

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