Re: more committers? (was Re: [Bug-wget] [PATCH] TLS SNI support)

[Micah Cowan]

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Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Micah Cowan wrote:
> 
>> The maintainer *ahem* finds himself with scant spare time these days,
>> and is beginning to find himself with a backload of fairly
>> straightforward (and otherwise) patches that he hasn't gotten his shit
>> together enough to review. He is, however, making an effort to at
>> least ensure they are being tracked so they're not forgotten.
> 
> Seeing that there are now a bunch of active contributors who send in
> patches, perhaps one or more of these should rather be given commit
> access so that they can get stuff merged without going through a single
> person?
> 
> It really doesn't matter who the single person is, he/she is likely to
> remain a bottle neck as long as he/she is "the single person".

Agreed. However, there are some complications. One is that there aren't
actually a bunch of active contributors, there are a bunch of sporadic
contributors. And of currently available contributors, I can only think
of one or two that I would trust to check arriving patches carefully,
and I don't believe that they have the time to spend on that. As a
corollary, if you (the reader) _do_ have a good understanding of Wget,
are careful about code quality and thinking ahead, and have available
time, I would absolutely welcome help with this: please contact me.

Another complication is that anyone who contributes more than ~20 lines
of code (including cumulatively across several patches) must have a
copyright disclaimer or assignment on file with the FSF, since this is a
FSF-owned package, and so I can't have someone just merging in every
good patch as soon as we get it. :\

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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