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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Alex S. Tsamutali wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 03:54:04 +0500, Jeremy Blosser (emrys)
> <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org> 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.
>
> i want to be apprentice, mainly because i have local grimoire with new
> spells, fixes etc. but i'm too lazy to make a diff, file bug on bugzilla
> etc... so count me in!

Welcome to the team. :)

> P.S. my biggest problem at this time is poor english knowledge

That's not a problem. We can help you with that and might even improve
our own English in the process. ;)

- -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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