Re: Co-Maintainer

[Laura Morales]

I still don't understand what you are writing and where you want to go with 
this.
Anyway if you, as you stated, have no background whatsoever on the software 
that you are offering to maintain, and if you are not even willing to join the 
bug tracker, then I'm afraid you have zero qualifications to be a decent 
maintainer. You are very welcome however to use your precious time to 
contribute anything that you are capable to contribute.

PS: I don't speak for other maintainers. I'm only a user.
 
 

Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2018 at 9:28 PM
From: "Kenneth Adam Miller" <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Co-Maintainer

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:address@hidden> 
wrote:I think you are confusing the roles of "contributor" and "maintainer".
 
 

Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2018 at 8:49 PM
From: "Kenneth Adam Miller" <address@hidden:address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Co-Maintainer

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. 

On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 7:22 AM Laura Morales 
<address@hidden:address@hidden:address@hidden:address@hidden> wrote:Is this 
sarcastic? Is this a passive-aggressive way to say something? I don't really 
understand the message.
 
 

Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2018 at 9:01 AM
From: "Kenneth Adam Miller" 
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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!

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?

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 9:41 PM Akim Demaille 
<address@hidden:address@hidden:address@hidden:address@hidden> wrote:

>
>
> > Le 17 août 2017 à 12:47, James Kay 
> > <address@hidden:address@hidden: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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