Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 07:13:46 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Jo Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com>, current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for 2006 ) Message-ID: <43C6560A.8020200@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <200601122112.13347.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <43A266E5.3080103@samsco.org> <200601062220.13417.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20060112073733.GG84964@svcolo.com> <200601122112.13347.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Daniel O'Connor wrote: >On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:07, Jo Rhett wrote: > > >>On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:20:11PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> >> >>>I imagine there are a few committers interested, but I'd say you need to >>>ask the right way first.. >>> >>> >>As in...? >> >> > >I don't know any personally, but then again I only know about 3 committers >which is not a large percentage. > > > >>But again, there are lots of people interested in this topic. Colin for >>an obvious one. But if Colin can't convince the team to take this on, >>where do you start? >> >> > >Colin is a committer. >You write the code under his guidance. >He commits it. > >So, there you go, problem solved. > > That's true, if you can find a committer willing to help - and I think that's the issue. I've tried numerous times to contact committers of certain areas, asking quick questions, or things like 'if I build this, would it be comittable?' - with about 80% of the time receiving no response. Now, I'm not complaining, or claiming they should reply - they are volunteers and already busy doing their regular life stuff in addition to the FreeBSD code they contribute. I'm just mentioning it as a data point, that it is pretty hard to find a committer willing to mentor someone, or at a minimum, give them pointers. The -hackers list is excellent as far as answering most technical questions (rapidly!), but in the end, it is pretty difficult to find a committer to listen to you, unless you already have patches ready to roll, since that takes less time of course. Maybe, on the FreeBSD developers page, we could have a list of categories and mentors for those categories for those willing to work on code to contact with questions, etc. Then committers could volunteer as a mentor for a category they enjoy.. Or is it enough to just post to -hackers asking 'anyone want to mentor me?' ? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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