Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 05:31:49PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> Mistakely send this not as followup to the list:
>
> Hi,
>
> Am Mo den 26. Feb 2007 um 12:02 schrieb Josselin Mouette:
> > Any volunteers around?
>
> Sure. For doing some Work on such projects as glibc (Low level tools,
> I'm not the frontend programmer). But then come to another problem, (and
> yes, I know there is the possibility to have a sponsor) how to just help
> without being a DD? I started the DD process long years ago but stalled
> as it gets to much tiresome without results.
The XSF just finished moving all the Xorg packages in to git, so if you
decide to work from them you have a completely distributed repository
that's 100% identical to what every team member is using. Furthermore,
upstream is also using it, so you get 100% of their repository as well.
Furthermore, we've been continuously giving non-DD's commit access over the
past few months, with great success. The wait time on getting commit access
tends to be less than a day, and hasn't yet reached a full week to my
knowledge.
I've also been sponsoring just about every non-DD on the team (and Julien
who recently got his account has also begun sponsoring the non-DD's) so
there's no problem getting your work on the packages sponsored.
I'm sure there's more ways to lower the barriers for contributing to the
Xorg packaging, but I'm not sure how. We seem to have taken care of the
major complaints with respect to allowing motivated people to
contribute[0].
- David Nusinow
[0] I know you're not interested in frontend things, but for anyone who is,
we currently have a space open for anyone interested in picking up the
beryl packaging, as Shawn has been taking time off. It's a golden
opportunity to work on one of the hottest pieces of software in the linux
world right now.
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