Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 00:56:16 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/linux-devel - Imported sources Message-ID: <19990712005616.B53739@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <199907112328.QAA22749@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 04:28:44PM -0700 References: <19990712005914.A61574@shale.csir.co.za> <199907112328.QAA22749@rah.star-gate.com>
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On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 04:28:44PM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> 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.
I thought the idea was that each new committer had a mentor. Instead
of the new committer hitting the tree directly, they ran each change they
wanted to make past their mentor for the first couple of weeks instead?
The mentor could then go over it and point out any style bugs, or general
errors, before they hit the tree.
This has certainly been the case on doc/ for the past year or so, and
has (IMHO) worked well. I still remember the moment of trepidation when
I first strayed out of doc/ and started committing doc related ports.
The image of a thousand pairs of eyes, all carefully scrutinising the
cvs-* mailing lists stays with you for some time. . .
N
--
[intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
the links.
-- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>
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