Re: casual contributors

[Colin Campbell]

On 12-03-23 12:28 AM, Graham Percival wrote:
> <snipped>

> We need a *secretary*. We need a *paper pusher*. We need a trained 
> monkey. I could even teach a first-year university student how to be a 
> perfect Frog meister, and having taught for a few years you have no 
> idea how low my opinion of those creatures are. We need somebody to 
> say "thank you for your interest, please read this link to get your 
> patch in the review stream", and then a few days later, to say "great, 
> your patch has been accepted, please email me your final patch". You 
> don't even need to have git push ability; if you take care of the 
> administration, just send me the final patch for pushing. This has 
> absolutely *nothing* to do with programming. I cannot emphasize how 
> little I want from the frog meister, other than keeping up with email 
> on a daily basis and looking at the countdown when it finishes three 
> times a week.

I could take it on, Graham, especially if the countdown process gets 
automated.  I read -user, -devel and -bug daily, to maintain context on 
patches, so helping newbs through the process shouldn't be too hard.

Cheers,
Colin "Ook ook" Campbell

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