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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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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
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