Re: Drafting new rules for GURU

Michał Górny <[email protected]> Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:47:26 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.gentoo.devel
Organization	Gentoo
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Fri, 2026-07-03 at 00:32 +0200, Esteve Varela Colominas wrote:
> > Prior to joining GURU, a new contributor is required to have at least one (ideally a few) non-trivial contributions reviewed and merged via pull requests or mailing list patches. These can involve new packages or fixes to the existing packages. You should aim for proving that you can commit and process feedback.
> 
> I think this is too vague and too daunting. This is the sort of language that typically scares me off from even attempting to contribute, because I'll doubt my ability thinking the thresholds for the given metrics (non-triviality and feedback processing) are really high.
> 

Yeah, perhaps the more correct wording would be to say "start
contributing via pull requests / patches, and we'll grant you access
after a few are merged".

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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