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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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