Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:46:00 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> 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 Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/linux-devel - Imported sources Message-ID: <199907141646.JAA38618@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:31:05 PDT." <199907141631.JAA56076@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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Good Point. It is more or less what I did in the multimedia group and it was effective. Cheers > > 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 -- Amancio Hasty hasty@rah.star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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