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Re: gothicx-guest removed



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Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> It kinda sounds like an NM process, to be honest. Not that I have

Well, there should be some checking, after all. Think of it, if things go awry
as it happened with gothicx, how do we even *know* we have a bad apple?

The sponsoring could happen totally behind the scene, without the new commer
knowing (this way he even feel free to work as he would in normal conditions, so
we get a better picture of the whole performance).

> nothing specially against it, but if we decide to go for it, we should
> just remove the low barrier idea from our goals, if we want to have

Why? Is there that much to ask to be cautious and test your changes? Belive me,
there was a time in the begining when I didn't trust goneri, but he told me that
he was a happy committer (commit first, test, commit, test, done) and I watched
him for a while, I saw what he did and now I trust him a lot.

Why is that such a high entry barrier?

> only people who are experienced and so. That, or starting a mentoring
> program.

I was thinking that the sponsor would be both reviewer and mentor at the same
time. If there is more than one mentor, so much the better.

> If we go for entering test, ACLs, provisional testing mode for new
> members and so, they might find it so intimidating that it might not

Nobody said anything about an entry test, we agreed ACLs are a technical
solution to a social problem and would just hide problems and wouldn't offer any
real benefits that would outweight the maintainance costs.

> My personal experience is that people react better to trust than to
> authoritarian management and supervision, it makes them (me too) feel

Yes, they do. But we will not give that feeling if they plainly receive comments
to their commits and need to answer those comments and address them, if needed,
will we?

> making the team a police-controlled state.

Whoa! we're getting close .... to Godwin's law

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Regards,
EddyP
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