[Sugar-devel] core maintainers

[Martin Dengler]

David,

When you have the time, some clarity here would be appreciated.

Martin

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:49:33AM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 01:58:32PM -0500, David Farning wrote:
> > Over the past couple of months, Activity Central has been establishing
> > a network of developers to provide service and support for
> > deployments.
> 
> I assume they're paid, otherwise why would you (Activity Central) not
> just "establish" such people into the normal SugarLabs network.
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > What is "Deployment Support Network"?
> >
> > Sugar Labs has expressed the importance of more code contributions
> > from deployments.  Deployments have expressed an interest in fixing
> > their own bugs.  The Deployment Support Network fills that gap.
> 
> What gap?  The gap between getting code from deployments and...
> deployments who want to write code?
> 
> What is "Deployment Support Network"?  In particular, who are they and
> how/why are they distict from Sugar Labs "members" (basically anyone
> who wants to submit a patch or write an email to sugar-devel@)?
> 
> > Initial, I had reservations about the maintainship roles these
> > developers would hold at Sugar Labs.  In light of the current backlog
> > of patches and the heavy burden a few core developers are holding, I
> > would like  work with the Sugar Labs development team to determine the
> > process for experienced developers to become maintainers.
> 
> You've totally avoided Walter's question (AFAICS) and then gingerly
> formulated an missive that, despite some mysterious reservations,
> seems to imply that you think the "[SL] development team" will resist
> having "experienced developers [...become] maintainers".  Why would
> you think that?
> 
> > david
> 
> Martin


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