On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Tobias McNulty <tob...@caktusgroup.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Russell Keith-Magee
> <russ...@keith-magee.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Mark Bucciarelli <mkb...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >  - punish dev's who don't fix their bugs quickly after api lock
>> >
>> > (The presentation lacks specifics on the last point. ;)
>>
>> Which is a big omission. When you're not paying anyone, and you
>> already have a problem getting contributions, you have limited options
>> for punishment. I'd be very interested to hear what constitutes
>> "punishment" in this approach.
>
> For the record, it is mentioned.  The punishment they tried for a few
> releases was denying commits from the developers who did not do their fair
> share of testing for 2 weeks after the tree was unlocked for everyone else.

My apologies -- I haven't watched the video for a while, so I forgot
that detail. I'm not sure adopting that policy would help Django,
though; we have enough of a bottleneck with committers without
exacerbating the problem.

Yours,
Russ Magee %-)

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