Re: Co-Maintainer

[Kenneth Adam Miller]

Hey, I didn't volunteer, just that I bet that the volunteer doesn't even
see or know about the difference.

In any case, that looked like a possible penetration test event. No one
just should just give permissions away without authentication - I didn't
know he was asking for that. I just thought it was help - the first thing I
thought was, ok, let's start giving suggestions and guiding feedback on how
to move forward.

On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 12:24 PM Laura Morales <address@hidden> wrote:

> I think you are confusing the roles of "contributor" and "maintainer".
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> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2018 at 8:49 PM
> From: "Kenneth Adam Miller" <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Co-Maintainer
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> I know that's what I thought. Some volunteer just came in with their
> valuable time and got turned away. GNU is a free software organization -
> part of their life blood is volunteers. Just because someone doesn't have a
> background in that particular thing doesn't mean they should be dismissed.
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> On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 7:22 AM Laura Morales <address@hidden:
> address@hidden> wrote:Is this sarcastic? Is this a passive-aggressive
> way to say something? I don't really understand the message.
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> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2018 at 9:01 AM
> From: "Kenneth Adam Miller" <address@hidden:
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> Subject: Re: Co-Maintainer
> Yeah, we just have too much of that 50$ an hour labor here lying around. No
> need to just adopt someone else's free hours and enthusiasm, no matter how
> small the favor is.
>
> I have some thing like 20 different research ideas and small helpful tasks
> that I could just write about in the space of 15 minutes each day!
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> How experienced are you? Do you have a resume? How much time do you have
> that's free? Does it have to be bison or can it be a subject of another
> interest, provided it suits your fascination?
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> On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 9:41 PM Akim Demaille <address@hidden:
> address@hidden> wrote:
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> > > Le 17 août 2017 à 12:47, James Kay <address@hidden:
> address@hidden> a écrit :
> > >
> > > Kia ora,
> > >
> > > I saw that this package was looking for co-maintainers.
> > > I’m happy to help, I'm a CS student in my final year at University.
> >
> > Hi James,
> >
> > Sorry we did not answer before.
> >
> > Help might still be needed, but before being a potential maintainer,
> > you have to show some activity around bison. For instance, come and
> > answer questions on the mailing lists, handle bug reports, submit
> > patches, etc.
> >
> > Cheers!
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