From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 4 11:36:41 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 802C837B401 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:36:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (A17-250-248-85.apple.com [17.250.248.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BBBA43FB1 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:36:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lomion@mac.com) Received: from asmtp02.mac.com (asmtp02-qfe3 [10.13.10.66]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h14JabiU024558 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:36:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mac.com ([67.98.154.9]) by asmtp02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H9SUH000.L5Y; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:36:36 -0800 Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:36:39 -0500 Subject: Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG To: Rahul Siddharthan From: Larry Sica In-Reply-To: <20030204142114.E4487@papagena.rockefeller.edu> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 02:21 PM, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Larry Sica wrote: >> I do not have the expertise to do any hard core programming, does that >> mean i therefore should have no say? What if i write a number of >> articles, or am really helpful? > > If you're really helpful, you could get a commit bit with the -doc > project, and a vote for the next core committee. To learn how, read > > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/01/31/Big_Scary_Daemons.html > > (Disclaimer: I'm not speaking from personal experience -- I haven't > contributed enough to -doc, and what little I have contributed needs > updating. But then I'm not the one demanding commit bit or a vote for > core. What few contributions I made were accepted readily; I'm sure > that if I regularly filed high-quality PRs, people would give me a > commit bit just to keep me quiet, as they did with Michael.) > Heh probably. I just took some offense with the idea that i am not invested in freebsd because i am not a developer. Without ppl like me, the users, there would be no freebsd to speak of. In the end it is all about the users i think. --Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message