Re: Invitation
Mark Vojkovich <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> What does it mean to be involved? Currently, involved but non-core people
> have to queue their patches up in fixes like everybody else, or maybe join a
> friendly fork like DRI, and wait for a merge. The point being that there
> hasn't been a great incentive to be involved in XFree86 as it's clear that you
> will always be treated as a 2nd class, frankly untrusted, citizen, relative to
> the core team in whom all commit power is vested, and can set their own
> direction regardless of outside council (even from the involved, or from
> people with long-standing expertise who aren't interested in joining the core).
The commit problem is a bug. I'm confident it will get fixed.
>
> 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 think committing and core team should be decoupled. In that
case, in my opinion, there's not really any need for a core team.
Mark.