> Basically, the person doing one or two commits a month *do not* need CVS > access. They can still *contribute* at their current pace without > having CVS access and a nice @gentoo.org email address.
Sorry, but as a dev who has lurked in the shadows for a long time, this simply isn't globally true. Sometimes there are packages which the dev takes over that nobody else who is a developer wants or has time to work on. This happened to me when all of a sudden nobody was on the ruby herd anymore. All of my requests went unanswered. So I simply took it over. I really appreciate the handful of devs who do the most commits, but why would you want to add even more to their plates by removing a bunch of the developers who handle smaller stuff. I simply don't have the time anymore to be as active as I used to be years ago. But I still do contribute as much as I can: I keep Qt, Ruby, Ice, and some KDE packages updated. If you want to take away my CVS access because I'm not a power committer anymore it won't hurt my feelings, but I can't imagine how it helps Gentoo in any way. I'll offer a counter proposal: I don't play games on the computer, and they're definitely not required for a working Linux distribution, so I think we should just get rid of all games packages. Let's focus our efforts more on the necessities. My point is that as long as it's of sufficient quality, it's silly not to accept the gratis work that someone's willing to do, be it in putting games into the distribution or making a small number of commits to keep a certain subset of packages up to date. Caleb -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
