From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 8 11:56:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9F5A15710 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 11:56:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA01399; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 14:54:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 14:54:25 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Brett Glass Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Rod Taylor , mmeola@uswest.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My proposals for the future [Long] In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990907215517.047c9880@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > 5. An "elitist" attitude which discourages even very talented > potential contributors to the code base; Ok, I can't claim to be even moderately talented but having transitioned from a 'potential contributor' to an 'actual contributor' to a 'somewhat active committer' over the period of about 2 months my perception of the FreeBSD project is in direct opposition of this statement. I've been encouraged and given help and guidance every step of the way. Some has been 'this is the wrong way to do X.' stated very bluntly, that, from an overly sensitive point of view could be taken as 'discouraging' but isn't intended to be. I believe this to be an artifact of mentors not having the spare cycles to handhold and baby new committers. I don't see this as bad. > 6. A shortage of contributors to handle known problems in the code > base (due to items 1 and 5 above); and The rate of growth of the committer base is in line with the projects ability to properly assimilate the new members. There will always be a shortage of contributors. I see a large part of your complaints as simple hand-waving. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message