Re: Invitation

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 02:13:49PM +0000, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> Egbert Eich wrote:
> >Keith Whitwell writes:
> 
> > > The core team?
> > > 
> > > Does this signal the start of a policy of expanding the core team?  Can 
> > some
> > > guidelines be published as to what steps an interested & active 
> > developer
> > > might need to take to become a committer/core team member?   And how 
> > long this
> > > might be expected to take?
> >
> >I have not said 'core team', I have said team.
> >I'm really surprised about your obsession about the
> >core team. How do you think people got on the core
> >team? By making contributions! But according to you
> >you cannot make a signifficant contribution when
> >you are not on the core team. 
> 
> Actually, I asked in part because I didn't know there was any other team 
> but the core team, so I was confused by your words and wanted 
> clarificiation.
> 
> What is this other XFree86 team?  What are the rights and responsibilities 
> associated with membership?
 
That's just it - there isn't. In my eyes Keith, you are part of the XFree86
team already because of the DRI work you already do.

> CVS access seems only to be granted to core team members, and that is why I 
> consider the idea of opening that group up to new members to be 
> significant. If CVS access were granted to non-core-team-members, that 
> would change.

Torrey Lyons, Thomas Dickey, Matthieu Herrb to name a few that are
CVS committers and not on the Core Team.

> In your opinion, Egbert, have I personally made any contributions to 
> XFree86?

In my opinion Keith, yes you have.

Alan.