From owner-cvs-all Wed Jul 14 9:38: 7 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B86B214DF4; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:37:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA56076; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:31:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rgrimes) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199907141631.JAA56076@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/linux-devel - Imported sources In-Reply-To: <199907112328.QAA22749@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Jul 11, 1999 04:28:44 pm" To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:31:05 -0700 (PDT) Cc: reg@shale.csir.co.za (Jeremy Lea), jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), imp@village.org (Warner Losh), peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Your comments are well taken . > > One way of training new committers is to have a manual or a web page in > addition to a learning or phasing period as you have suggested. Another way is for each person who has been in the avail file for more than 1 year to have to annually adopt 1 new committer to take under his wing and teach them the ropes. This would even apply to me, who hasn't actually made a commit in over a year or so. This would yeild square law growth per year, which is aggressive even for a commercial enterprise! Preferably matching new commiters to mentors who have expertise in similiar parts of the tree, but this would not be required. I would rather spend my time helping to mold a new committer, than wasting it reading all the _crap_ on the mailling lists lately. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message