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  • From: Pol Vinogradov <vin.public AT gmail.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Apprenticing and Welcome
  • Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 01:07:50 +0500

В сообщении от Четверг 29 сентября 2005 22:55 Eric Sandall написал(a):
> 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
thank you too ;)
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Sincerely yours Pol Vinogradov
E-mail: vin.public AT gmail.com; pol-vinogradov AT mail.ru
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