Re: Rant: Is anybody in power reading this at all?
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:39:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Rant: Is anybody in power reading this at all? | ||
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I saw your request, but yes, I ignored it waiting for some sort of
confirmation from the existing module maintainer, or even a hint from
you that you had contacted the existing maintainer. We don't just
randomly give people commit access to other peoples' code with some ack
from them.
On 12/14/2012 06:46 AM, Bernhard Weißhuhn wrote:
> Dear almighty guardians of the holy svn grail!
>
> One month ago I applied for svn access.
> I was told to use the form, which I did.
>
> I was neither accepted nor rejected, I was simply ignored.
> I asked again if there was anything more I had to do in order to be able to contribute.
> I was simply ignored.
>
> Now I see other account requests being ignored as well.
>
> Would it be too much to ask what is going on?
>
> Are new accounts suspended until the migration to git has been finished?
> Is the person handing out the accounts on holiday?
> Is there another secret form asking even more ridiculous questions to be filled out?
> Is nobody interested in new developers anymore?
>
> And: who is in charge of granting access anyway?
>
> Transparency in this regard certainly won't hurt you.
> Not more than driving away volunteers, that is.
>
> I don't mean to attack anybody in person (how could, I have absolutely no idea who's
> in charge),
> I'm just trying to point out how frustrating the process of contributing to pecl is for a
> newcomer.
>
> I was thinking about packaging another pecl module besides the one I applied for.
> You know what? Forget it.
>
> bkw
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