Re: some thoughts about contributing to gnome

[Samuel Abels <newsgroups debain org>]

Am Mittwoch, den 11.05.2005, 16:44 -0600 schrieb Elijah Newren:
> On 5/11/05, Samuel Abels <newsgroups debain org> wrote:
> > Have there been any attempts to identify which non-maintainers
> > contributed more than ~3(,4,5,whatever) patches, so that a maintainer
> > who urgently needs help can ask them whether they may be interested to
> > become a co-maintainer? They don't need to contribute much new code,
> > simply accepting patches seems to be great help already.
> 
> Hehe, take a look at
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/metacity/ChangeLog?view=markup and check
> for occurrences of my name.  I still can't accept patches (well, if
> it's "obvious and Rob and I agree" then Havoc says its okay...). 
> Having contributed just a handful of patches isn't enough to become a
> co-maintainer, typically.

Well, then maybe it's time to rethink those policies. ;)

> > I noticed that in the last two or three months the number of unreviewed
> > patches has been growing rapidly; when I checked a few months ago the
> > count was at ~500, now we are close to breaking the 900 barrier.
> 
> Evolution and a bunch of other related products were imported, and I
> believe that may account for much if not most of that increase.

Oh, right.

> I'm working on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/patch-nag.cgi, with
> the idea of periodicially emailing people with a condensed form of
> whats in that page and a link to that page...

Yep, that is *very* nice ;).

-Samuel