From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GV7y4-0000Qh-Rw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:43:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k94EgNnj010097; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:42:23 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k94Ecmjm002468 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:38:49 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id p27so61417ugc for ; Wed, 04 Oct 2006 07:38:48 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=KzsLvQ2Gpo69vmX/mE0iMVtwgMf7i3rEsZvNq2XK4BS308U/yeLEUf1H5VAaCMCye28YZ1ieEy2xH/gSgNSZS4kL7haamreIdxvm/gtw9yfNTUlplNlmmiFUaNJ/KGpuR5Eyir6Eum8gXCER0uwsVXgQfrOjMHimZigL+5TWsDE= Received: by 10.78.182.20 with SMTP id e20mr525059huf; Wed, 04 Oct 2006 07:38:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.141.7 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 07:38:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3b09e8e90610040738p5c35c134v43e790f0ec7060f2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 10:38:48 -0400 From: "Thomas Cort" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide In-Reply-To: <1159971525.10543.22.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061004070014.843d851d.tcort@gentoo.org> <1159971525.10543.22.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> X-Archives-Salt: 5d19b236-c382-4a4c-8bf1-a7eb6b3343a3 X-Archives-Hash: de6adf1d010761f05054421c54eb1c39 > > - Double the number of developers with aggressive recruiting > > Why do people think that this is a good idea? I have a different one. > How about we *half* the number of developers, keeping the people who do > the most work, and let everyone else contribute as members of the > community? Having developers on projects/teams/herds/whatever that do > only a few commits a year doesn't do anything but artificially inflate > our numbers. Even if someone only does a little bit of work (maintaining a package or two and only doing one or two commits per month), it is better than none. Does having active accounts for these people produce very much extra work for infra or anyone else? I only see it as a benefit to users (things get done faster) and developers (one less bug to fix). The only problem I have with low activity developers is when they don't commit fixes for bugs that are assigned to them in a timely manner. > > - Devs can only belong to 5 projects at most > > This is a really bad idea. Some developers simply work > harder/faster/more than others. Setting up some artificial limitation > on how many projects one can belong to won't help. Perhaps a better > solution here is that all developers must belong to at least one > project? Coupled with this would be that there would be certain > expectations within the project for work completed. Developers who do > not meet the "quota" are removed from the project. Get removed from all > your projects and get retired. Simple as that. I really like your idea. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list