(Please don't top-post!) 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 -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
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