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casual contributors (was: patch going unpushed)
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Graham Percival |
Subject: |
casual contributors (was: patch going unpushed) |
Date: |
Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:37:15 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 08:18:26AM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote:
> Hi Graham,
>
> Graham> We don't really have a frog meister, so nobody is taking
> Graham> responsibility for pushing
>
> I have another patch waiting, that depends on the first.
>
> Is there supposed to be a procedure for casual contributers to follow?
No. If that sounds scary, then you have the right reaction.
Or rather -- yes, there *is* a procedure. You're supposed to show
up, then the frog meister should contact you with any details you
missed (such as using our git-cl). Then you're supposed to upload
a patch, and the frog meister should keep track of your patch and
take care of all the details. But since we don't have a frog
meister, this falls down.
So yes, you've been doing everything right. We simply don't have
anybody who is willing to do ~30 minutes of admin work per week to
help casual contributors.
(and for the record: no, I am not willing to do that role. I know
that I'm the expert on this subject, having mentored over 20
people in lilypond in the past, but I am not at willing to do that
job right now)
> The other open-source projects (QEMU, Linux Kernel, uClinux) I
> contribute to set up a Maintainer for each subsystem, and patches are
> submitted to that person to get pushed.
In lilypond development, the "frog meister" is our name for
"maintainer". But without somebody willing to do that job, we're
SOL.
> I don't really want to get much more involved in LilyPond than I am already
> --- I'm involved in two other open source projects (QEMU and Linux
> Kernel at present) that take up most of my (little) free time. --- but
> if you wanted to give me commit access, I could undertake to maintain
> articulate.
Quite understandable. I'll probably give you push access in a few
weeks, but that won't solve the general problem faced by casual
contributors. To be frank, I'm using you to highlight this
problem.
Cheers,
- Graham
- patch going unpushed, Graham Percival, 2012/03/22
- Re: patch going unpushed, Peter Chubb, 2012/03/23
- casual contributors (was: patch going unpushed),
Graham Percival <=
- Re: casual contributors (was: patch going unpushed), Janek WarchoĊ, 2012/03/23
- Re: casual contributors (was: patch going unpushed), 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, Graham Percival, 2012/03/23