Traits status (was: Re: Strange behavior)

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sun Oct 23 20:37:12 UTC 2005


On 23 oct. 05, at 19:09, Cees De Groot wrote:

> On 10/23/05, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>
>> Only if they are fulltime engaged in supporting you. Which almost
>> certainly means paid. Are they?
>>
>
> Nope. Nor do I think that's a necessary requirement. The crucial
> factor is to make it possible that any member of the team can respond
> (integrate a submission) and that this takes little work (both to get
> 'into' the job and to execute the job).

the problem is that until recently this was not a little work
since we had to make sure that we could built an image.

> Also note that I'm not talking SLA's here. Just something to strive
> for to keep the stewarding teams, harversters and individual patch
> submitters happy. If you handle the majority of cases quickly, no-one
> will object (or run to a lawyer, or want to get her money back) if
> some cases take longer. But you will have the advantages of simple
> Pavlovian psychology working for you...

Exact. If you remember when ned was harvesting, I was trying to do that
with his fixes so that he continues to clean....

Stef



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