Tilman Sauerbeck <tilman@crux.nu> wrote:
Matthias-Christian Ott [2007-10-05 17:51]:
I tried to get a developer account and proper e-mail address on the CRUX server in order to be able to participate in development, maintenance and organisation, but nobody replied, my e-mails were rejected. I contacted Per and told him about my plans, but he could not really help me, because he was not a CRUX developer anymore.
Yeah, contacting Per is moot these days.
btw, I've seen that mail now in which you tried to get a developer account. I suggest you read that mail again yourself and think about whether the *tone* of the text fits with "asking for access".
A developer needs access to primary development repository in order to work effectively. Additionally I am not a native speaker.
I've worked with several free software projects in the last few years, and I've never seen somebody behave like that when they wanted to contribute.
In comparison to the GNU procedure for developers (which is really necessary), it is quite unusual to ask that directly. I have been a project primary administrator for a project hosted by berlios and gave commit and write rights to everyone who wanted and never had any problems with this policy.
Commanding us to give you access after you supplied two patches is kind of crazy.
It depends on your perspective and opinion.
And of course, it doesn't make sense at all that you didn't subscribe to the developer list in order to be able to post there to ask for access.
Well, I had an e-mail account at yahoo and used it via webmail which made it practically impossible to subscribe to any mailinglist.
Apparently flaming us was enough reason to subscribe to this list after all. Oh well o_O
No, I never intended to start a flame war. I got a better e-mail account and wanted to make sure that I do everything that is possible before switching or forking a distribution. -- Matthias-Christian Ott