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Date:      Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:36:39 -0500
From:      Larry Sica <lomion@mac.com>
To:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object
Message-ID:  <FAD1ED92-3877-11D7-9842-000393A335A2@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030204142114.E4487@papagena.rockefeller.edu>

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On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 02:21 PM, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:

> Larry Sica wrote:
>> I do not have the expertise to do any hard core programming, does that
>> mean i therefore should have no say?  What if i write a number of
>> articles, or am really helpful?
>
> If you're really helpful, you could get a commit bit with the -doc
> project, and a vote for the next core committee.  To learn how, read
>
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/01/31/Big_Scary_Daemons.html
>
> (Disclaimer: I'm not speaking from personal experience -- I haven't
> contributed enough to -doc, and what little I have contributed needs
> updating.  But then I'm not the one demanding commit bit or a vote for
> core.  What few contributions I made were accepted readily; I'm sure
> that if I regularly filed high-quality PRs, people would give me a
> commit bit just to keep me quiet, as they did with Michael.)
>


Heh probably.  I just took some offense with the idea that i am not 
invested in freebsd because i am not a developer.   Without ppl like 
me, the users, there would be no freebsd to speak of.  In the end it is 
all about the users i think.

--Larry


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