From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CA2A9138239 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 20:59:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F01EE0894; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 20:59:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EA6E2E0863 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 20:59:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pomiot (c134-66.icpnet.pl [85.221.134.66]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mgorny) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 11E7234BDBD; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 20:59:49 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The demotivating process of contributing to devmanual From: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_G=C3=B3rny?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: devmanual Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 22:59:45 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: <7db69bdd30aeaf350f9c70c28abf9d890656d55c.camel@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-JRrL62t1FEw3D/EDNlHy" User-Agent: Evolution 3.32.4 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: 512d1541-0c98-41ef-b75a-ac5e43b09670 X-Archives-Hash: a6dd728dce5880967945f38b932e1ab0 --=-JRrL62t1FEw3D/EDNlHy Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2019-10-15 at 16:47 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 4:35 PM Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wrote: > > Hello, everyone. > >=20 > > I'd like to highlight a major problem with devmanual. For a basic > > policy & developer documentation thingie, it's quality is so-so at best= . > > A lot of stuff is missing, lots of things are outdated or even > > incorrect. Not many people are contributing, and those who try quickly > > resign. >=20 > Maybe you should join the project? Especially if you are making major > contributions. Are you suggesting that I join the project and start committing without review, or disregarding review? I have serious doubts on joining the project if I am repeatedly proven to be doing things wrong -- whether the issues were serious or not. >=20 > > Most of my pull requests were apparently approved, so they might be > > finally merged some day. >=20 > I believe all devs have push access to that repo, so you could just > push the changes yourself if there are no reasonable objections. I never realized that. >=20 > Minor mistakes happen, and can be corrected after the fact. >=20 --=20 Best regards, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny --=-JRrL62t1FEw3D/EDNlHy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQGTBAABCgB9FiEEx2qEUJQJjSjMiybFY5ra4jKeJA4FAl2mM0JfFIAAAAAALgAo aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldEM3 NkE4NDUwOTQwOThEMjhDQzhCMjZDNTYzOUFEQUUyMzI5RTI0MEUACgkQY5ra4jKe JA4jWggAn5w7C4g6keOkZVbkPV6jqYp9TGBtufbMtGYsUwPtD7lv3wZnzslyoyOG T2rwbEZN6NGCUBhLr//VaT/HOsIo6WB7dbOhzZO5ErwP5dm0R+GcemI3accnIBJF gqvBeGaGhUoqsJz5n96e2Yi0PyB446vhZ7OEnGmDlYcU/eQ0rqvCyqMG2eNjghha bvBsNSTa8JZYxv0VchdnFncZxXnjZDuWNFJgR9hI8mHXppFmVRwMh5mt0JeCuowp jtCuHwRxpGlp2UgwsFnKFWKUqOvCp5qXSkBd33wWahxOoDVypVg1+vBAdK+FjJ8c y/Nsf1VYllEqqSFUL1rYdZAEA54KMQ== =42+B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-JRrL62t1FEw3D/EDNlHy--