On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:00:24 -0500
Dane Smith <c1p...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I whole-heartedly disagree with this. First off, the "line in the
> sand" concept is completely unnecessary in this case. It barely makes
> sense when it's used on a massive scale (can't drink until 21 in the
> US), and it only makes sense there because people could not feasibly
> be evaluated on an individual basis. In this case, quite clearly they
> can. Either they have the skills and the motivation, or they don't.
> Some x month line in the sand makes no difference at all and merely
> slows people down who would like to help and contribute. We have
> enough hurdles around here. Why add more?
Because these half year olds would despite their limited experience
gain direct access to the big red stop button on the pole in the sand
that's coupled to someone else's commit privileges. I think six months
isn't nearly enough.
> The same can be said for the quiz. If the current QA lead would like
> to decide that way, it should be up to him. But on the whole it
> should be the QA leads decision. Personally I think the idea is kind
> of crazy, and seems like a waste of time. Evaluation can be done
> quite easily on a case by case basis. Why bother with quizzes?
As above.
Having inexperienced developers who are apparently very eager to start
"enforcing" QA through devrel - that's rather scary too.
jer
