From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch queue management systems Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 01:06:54 +0100 Message-ID: <87d27tbs9t.fsf@zigzag.favinet> References: <546D2E75.6090701@cs.ucla.edu> <837fyp7tvi.fsf@gnu.org> <546E2899.4050702@cs.ucla.edu> <54756754.5090103@cs.ucla.edu> <54762721.4060908@cs.ucla.edu> <17zjb2h650.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <86mw71pl6d.fsf@yandex.ru> <83fvct145r.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418083393 21531 80.91.229.3 (9 Dec 2014 00:03:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 00:03:13 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 09 01:03:07 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy8Gg-0001gG-SQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 01:03:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36786 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy8Gg-00010T-C5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:03:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48326) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy8GY-00010C-Jn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:03:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy8GS-0007Vo-Qz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:02:58 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp205.alice.it ([82.57.200.101]:54579) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy8GS-0007VZ-Gf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:02:52 -0500 Original-Received: from zigzag.favinet (79.21.51.110) by smtp205.alice.it (8.6.060.28) id 547D8A4D01A3AD15 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 9 Dec 2014 01:02:49 +0100 Original-Received: from ttn by zigzag.favinet with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy8KY-0001zI-Ek for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 01:07:06 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 08 Dec 2014 23:24:44 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.57.200.101 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179501 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable () Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen () Mon, 08 Dec 2014 23:24:44 +0100 > Personally, I think arranging the development around this > kind of process will not work without some critical mass of > patch reviewers who are able to endure the current constant > high volume of changes, let alone if we want to increase that > volume. Perhaps we could attract more people by gamifying the Emacs development, a la Github. That is, score people on bug closures and stuff. A (psychologically) related maneuver is specialization (a la Brooks' MMM "team" concept). For example, for LibreDWG, i limit the damage i do by relegating myself to a fussy-bureaucrat role: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libredwg/2014-12/msg00012.html Pignolo, io?! Ma va... =C3=A8 un dono! :-D =2D-=20 Thien-Thi Nguyen GPG key: 4C807502 (if you're human and you know it) read my lisp: (responsep (questions 'technical) (not (via 'mailing-list))) =3D> nil --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlSGPSIACgkQZwMiJEyAdQISwgCg4hwSXFXItGsVfgv6UzHv3jHk hIAAn1llYLVtC7XbcdxTCjXJxGbc/hSl =MRlx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--