Re: [Qemu-devel] An organizational suggestion

[Ian Jackson]

Johannes Schindelin writes ("Re: [Qemu-devel] An organizational suggestion"):
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Jamie Lokier writes ("Re: [Qemu-devel] An organizational suggestion"):
> > > Perhaps it's simply not enough people are paid to do this and 
> > > volunteers have other interests.  From what I've seen elsewhere, patch 
> > > tracking doesn't help much if there's nobody actively working on 
> > > integration and setting overall vision/direction.
> > 
> > Well, I'm certainly willing.  Perhaps I haven't made my availability 
> > clear enough.
> 
> From the commit messages on trunk and a summarizing shortlog of the 
> committers, it is relatively easy to see that frequent contributors became 
> committers, because they earned trust.
> 
> From my short analysis, the most obvious candidates are: [...]

It is obviously for the current team to decide who they trust, and I
won't be offended if that turns out not to be me.  I was offering -
because Jamie suggested that there was a lack of willing volunteers -
and certainly not demanding.

But I do think it is important that we have _some_ new committer(s)
who are keen to do the kind of routine patch review and inclusion,
which is sadly currently not getting the necessary prompt attention.

Ian.