Johannes Schindelin writes ("Re: [Qemu-devel] An organizational suggestion"):
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Ian Jackson wrote:
Jamie Lokier writes ("Re: [Qemu-devel] An organizational suggestion"):
Perhaps it's simply not enough people are paid to do this and
volunteers have other interests. From what I've seen elsewhere, patch
tracking doesn't help much if there's nobody actively working on
integration and setting overall vision/direction.
Well, I'm certainly willing. Perhaps I haven't made my availability
clear enough.
From the commit messages on trunk and a summarizing shortlog of the
committers, it is relatively easy to see that frequent contributors became
committers, because they earned trust.
From my short analysis, the most obvious candidates are: [...]
It is obviously for the current team to decide who they trust, and I
won't be offended if that turns out not to be me. I was offering -
because Jamie suggested that there was a lack of willing volunteers -
and certainly not demanding.
But I do think it is important that we have _some_ new committer(s)
who are keen to do the kind of routine patch review and inclusion,
which is sadly currently not getting the necessary prompt attention.