On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 00:25 +0100, Philip Wyett wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 06:17 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 12:59 +0200, David Hrbáč wrote: > > > Jim Perrin napsal(a): > > > > > > > > The CentOS team is quite small and we're working on this for free. > > > > Donations of cash, hardware, and talent are welcome to help improve > > > > the project. > > > > > > Well, I would call this 'marketing talks'. There's whole bunch of people > > > in this list trying to help and even offering the help. So please do not > > > cry the team is small. > > > > I won't comment on that as what I would say is not publicly acceptable. > > > > We have standards that we have to meet to get the packages out the door > > and testing that must be done. > > > > There is the issue of who gets the private key and how do we get group > > work time when we have people all over the world. > > > > There is the transfer time of ISOs so that others can review / test > > them. > > > > Building the packages takes 1-2 days ... testing them, installing them, > > comparing them to upstream packages, etc ... that takes time. > > > > > There's no rule how to became the CentOs > > > developer, as far I have not seen any invitation in lists even. I'm > > > trying to improve/push Centos with every my post. > > > > We are glad you want to help and we encourage it. How to become a > > member of the CentOS team is to ask. > > > > If you have an open source background (ie, have participated on help > > site, have worked on an opensource project in the past, etc.). If you > > want to help, answer questions in the forum, etc. > > > > How not to become a CentOS developer is to call one out on a public > > mailinglist. > > > > Thanks, > > Johnny Hughes > > > > As Johnny has stated to help CentOS, you only need to ask. > > During the life of 4.3 I mentioned in IRC that I wanted to give CentOS > 4.4 a new look unique to CentOS and asked for opinion on my idea. The > response was good and after discussion with Johnny, other CentOS devs > and other users who lurk in #centos-devel, I went away threw some > prototypes together and came back with them. Once folks were happy, I > made all the art and code changes and rolled new srpms, tested them and > when I was happy submitted them to Johnny. They then fell into the 4.4 > beta and went through the normal process described to go into what is > now CentOS 4.4. > > It's that easy to contribute if you want to. > > Regards > > Phil > And I would like to thank Phil for the new look ... I like it alot :) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20060901/b2487d1f/attachment-0007.sig>