Re: [Plib-devel] PLIB developers needed.

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Fay John F Contr AAC/WMG wrote:
 
> What does being a PLIB developer entail?

Well, any or all of the following:

1) Having great ideas - turning them into working code - committing them.

2) Getting great ideas from other people - turning them into working code - committing them.

3) Getting code from other people - making sure it works - committing it.

4) Committing patches from other people who aren't registered developers but
   whom we trust.

5) Documentation.

6) Perhaps volunteering to take over and "own" one of the library chunks in PLIB.

7) Perhaps taking over maintenance of the PLIB web site.

8) Perhaps taking over the main release mechanism for PLIB.

Right now - I'd be happy to let anyone I know moderately well from past
history do any of the first five things - for the last three, it would
have to be someone I know *WELL* and who has contributed quite a bit of
good stuff.

>  I'm interested in supporting PUI,
> but my day job keeps getting in the way.

Yep - my problem in a nutshell.

>  How many hours a week are you talking about?

As many or as few as you can contribute.  You could make
a useful impact with just a few hours a week.

> What sort of things does a formal developer do?

Well, the only difference between a formal developer and a typical
list member is that you have access rights that allow you to change
the code/examples/documents for PLIB without having to go through
Dave or myself to get changes actually committed.

There is an element of trust here.  I obviously have to give up a
measure of control - and yet trust that someone whom I give write
access to isn't going to make a horrible mess of the architecture.

You have to trust that I won't go and undo all your hard work after
you've gone to all the trouble of committing it.

Dave and I seem to agree on most things - so it's going smoothly
so far...we need to go carefully to avoid personality problems
in the future.

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