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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: "Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Apprenticing and Welcome
  • Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:55:33 -0700 (PDT)

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On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
From time to time we have new users and other people show up in IRC who
demonstrate that they are able to debug problems and provide good fixes and
patches. Our normal style is to offer these people developer rights so
that they can fix their own bugs and further contribute to the
distribution. Quite a lot of us probably got our start in the distro this
way. Lately we have had a few who have declined this offer because they
didn't feel they were quite ready for an extra level of responsibility.

For this reason we are going to pilot an "apprentice" system where we give
these people commit access to the devel branch(es) only, with another full
developer accepting responsibility to review their commits and integrate
them to test for them. Hopefully after doing this a short while and
getting some experience working with our system and policies these
apprentices will feel ready to become full developers. I will be posting
some info about this to the web site before too long.

Note: This will in no way change our normal process for letting interested
parties be full developers. Apprenticeship is not going to be any kind of
mandatory thing for new developers, it's just a way to try to speed up the
process for people who are consistently submitting good bugfixes and
patches to bugzilla and other places who for whatever reason don't feel
they're ready to push things directly themselves. If you have any further
questions about this, please ask.

How will we know when new mentors are needed? I do like this idea, but
we should probably post to the mailing list when asking for mentors so
that all developers have a chance to offer their time if they want to.
;)

With that out of the way, I would like to welcome Pol Vinogradov (public on
IRC) as our first apprentice. Pol has contributed several good patches
already, and we look forward to what else he can bring to SMGL. George
Sherwood has agreed to sponsor/mentor Pol until he feels ready to be a full
guru himself.

Welcome to the team Pol! :)

- -sandalle

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Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us | http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
http://counter.li.org/ #196285 | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/
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