Hi,
The problem here was, that you 2 was hard to get in touch. Sure notaz had only a few patches and was fairly reactive with them. But John, you were unavail for more than 3 months. No offence here : RL is by far more important, but still, that holded a bit the project. (I do have softwares waiting to have eglibc to be packaged up. I asked you for direction to help you getting the merge in shape earlier and got no response :( ) Now that the pandora is finally shipping, we will have a greater audience. A large part of the current/futur owners are linux geek, so I expect to get more patchescoming than we had until now. The idea of having a backup is to allow everyone to have a real life while not holding the project. I greatly respect your abilities, and I agree that the champion of each area should be the gatekeeper (when he is available).
So in that respect, even I get git commit right, I wont commit a .bb files, but will send them to you (DjWillis) for reviews (and dont expect me to ever touch the kernel : far away of my league :D)
We had many flame war about the project gouvernance on irc, and many though it was hard to get patches in. For sure having a mailling list for that is a good step in the right direction.
Cheers, sebt3
2011/2/23 John Willis John.Willis@distant-earth.com
Posted here:
http://pandorawiki.org/Firmware_governance
We need to get a backup for djwillis (atc?) and notaz (urjaman?)
..
we've already suckered in Ivanovic and sebt3 for libpnd (the fools!)
Well I think I can deal fine with < 1 patches per month, if you don't
mind I'll
keep kernel keys to myself (for the time being at least).
On the same line,
As I have never actually had a patch for the firmware outside of the core team I am not in a rush to hand commit access out. Esp. as I am trying to find the time to work on things again.
That said, I have no problem with building up the teams but I would rather look to spread the maintainer load with do'ers in time not just for the sake of it or based on a small number of patches, esp. when you take into account the burden of pushing things up to mainline and reworking accordingly (something Grazvydas and I often do).
With the caveat that I am not sure we need lots of maintainers, just a core maintainer/gatekeeper for each area (after all we are not exactly talking about a massive upswelling of developers all of a sudden) I am broadly happy with the governance page.
I would like to expand it suggesting that patches are send to this mailing list as GIT style diffs but that may just be me (I find mailing lists, patches and something like that combined with Patchwork http://ozlabs.org/~jk/projects/patchwork/ can work very well). Maybe that is just me however, forums and the like are a burden to review off-line, emails are not ;). Comments?
Regards,
John
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