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["Ben Goertzel" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alejandro,

I think you're right and I pinged Joel offlist and he agreed ... but plz
give us a little while to rectify this, as many tasks loom !!!

ben g

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Alejandro Dubrovsky <alitosis@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>
> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 07:09 -0700, David Hart wrote:
> > The process to join opencog-dev is simple. The team requires that
> > applicants submit patches and interact constructively with the team
> > (both typically via IRC) before being given commit access (e.g. the
> > staging branch or other team branches). Note that anyone may make
> > public working branches pulled from OpenCog code without joining the
> > opencog-dev team!
>
> Right, but why does the dev list have to be tied to being a member of
> the opencog-dev team?  I think this makes it much harder for casual
> contributors to exist.  While I don't have the time to be a developer on
> the project, I would check trunk/main/staging/whatever out frequently
> and fix odds and ends, but not being able to read the list makes it much
> harder to know what is going on (yes, I know the archives are open
> through a web interface, but reading email lists through a circa
> late-90s looking web interface is very painful).  Couldn't we at least
> get read-only access without having to also have commit access to the
> tree?
>
> (True, my contribution wouldn't be massive, but there could be a lot of
> people in my position, and at least gathering from other open-sourcish
> projects, the aggregate contribution by this tail could be significant.
> It also helps in upselling people up to more serious development)
>
>
> PS  gratuitious, ignorant, and possibly inflamatory comment, just
> because i don't get to exercise my rant priviliges often enough these
> days:  the flamewar between linas vs the rest of the world seems from
> the outside to be just a standard culture clash between someone who is
> too accustomed to the open-source style in-your-face show-all-warts
> development vs the more typical corporate development where people just
> want to show their best work to the public
>
>
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