[CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

Sat Oct 3 06:36:58 UTC 2009
Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com>

On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Ralph Angenendt wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Brian Mathis
> <brian.mathis+centosdocs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What you currently have is the "lock model", and with few admins the
>> idea of opening up the system seems like a bad one because those
>> admins will need to deal with all those errors, but this is not the
>> case.  As soon as it's open, you'll have more people monitoring and
>> more people who can fix errors as they are introduced.
>
> We already have > 70 people who would be able to do so (no idea how
> many of these accounts are still in use). Do I see those going over
> pages? Rarely, it's nearly always the same persons.

Could it be that entry to collaborate is not low enough to make it work ? 
If you have too many rules, people might be afraid/unable to make the 
necessary fix. Especially if it requires sending a mail and decision by 
committee.

My worries are that you are taking something for granted that is caused by 
the current rules, to keep those rules in place.

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