Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 20:54:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, 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: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907112051280.31726-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <19990712005616.B53739@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:
> 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. . .
I have a mentor, but I really haven't used him much. I've definitely learned
from him, but I've not done anything that would raise controversy (much :)
When I get a bit of controversy, it's usually from bde ;) but that way, I
learn quite a lot from him (like KNF being a tricky bastard). Everyone
can always use someone to get help from, which I very readily admit. But
not everyone really needs explicit hand-holding. Just don't look at my
goofed first commits.... =)
>
> 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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