Re: Rant: Is anybody in power reading this at all?

From: 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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