Peter Clifton wrote:
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 19:20 +0000, Gareth Edwards wrote:If we want to trial this model, I'm personally happy to become one of the "second-class developers" as Kai-Martin put it - to do some patch triage for gEDA tools in general, not just pcb.Sure! These things typically evolve anyway.. and are not assigned. I guess what we're saying is that someone taking an interest in patches, verifying them, and perhaps championing them to the developers - would be a useful... if that inspires people to fill that role, excellent, but I don't expect we'll be formally assigning "second-class-developers".
In a much much larger project that I've been involved with for a long time, new developers need 2 sponsors who will review and approve commits for a little while. There has been talk from time to time about the notion of "second-class-developers" ~forever over there but in the end, most of us have enough sense to not mess with parts that are too far outside of our expertise. Thats why I've filed a good number of bug reports, sometime with patches attached even, for a project that I've had commit access to for well over a decade.
Perhaps we can even form some teams interested to receive email updates, and get subscribed to bugs / patches in certain areas, with patches for review, or whatever.
fwiw, there is a pcb-bugs mailing list with only me as the subscriber. Of course in all fairness, that list didn't exist yesterday ;) That list will get all new bug reports and updates to existing reports.
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