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Re: casual contributors
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Colin Campbell |
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Re: casual contributors |
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Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:36:43 -0600 |
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On 12-03-23 12:28 AM, Graham Percival wrote:
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We need a *secretary*. We need a *paper pusher*. We need a trained
monkey. I could even teach a first-year university student how to be a
perfect Frog meister, and having taught for a few years you have no
idea how low my opinion of those creatures are. We need somebody to
say "thank you for your interest, please read this link to get your
patch in the review stream", and then a few days later, to say "great,
your patch has been accepted, please email me your final patch". You
don't even need to have git push ability; if you take care of the
administration, just send me the final patch for pushing. This has
absolutely *nothing* to do with programming. I cannot emphasize how
little I want from the frog meister, other than keeping up with email
on a daily basis and looking at the countdown when it finishes three
times a week.
I could take it on, Graham, especially if the countdown process gets
automated. I read -user, -devel and -bug daily, to maintain context on
patches, so helping newbs through the process shouldn't be too hard.
Cheers,
Colin "Ook ook" Campbell
--
... it is not enough to show that a situation is bad; it is also
necessary to be reasonably certain that the problem has been properly
described, fairly certain that the proposed remedy will improve it, and
virtually certain that it will not make it worse.
- Robert Conquest, (As quoted in _Basic Economics, A Citizen's Guide to
the Economy_ by Thomas Sowell)
- Re: casual contributors, (continued)
- Re: casual contributors, David Kastrup, 2012/03/23
- Re: casual contributors, Graham Percival, 2012/03/23
- Re: casual contributors, David Kastrup, 2012/03/23
- Re: casual contributors, Graham Percival, 2012/03/23
- Re: casual contributors, David Kastrup, 2012/03/23
- Re: casual contributors, Graham Percival, 2012/03/23
- Re: casual contributors, David Kastrup, 2012/03/23
- Re: casual contributors, Janek WarchoĊ, 2012/03/23
- Re: casual contributors, Graham Percival, 2012/03/23
- Re: casual contributors, David Kastrup, 2012/03/23
- Re: casual contributors,
Colin Campbell <=
- Re: casual contributors, David Kastrup, 2012/03/23
- Re: casual contributors, Colin Campbell, 2012/03/23
- Re: casual contributors, Graham Percival, 2012/03/23