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From:
George Greer
Date:
July 3, 2010 13:36
Subject:
Re: backporting into 5.12.2 -- was kill $1 broken
Message ID:
alpine.LFD.2.00.1007031532480.31175@ein.m-l.org
On Sat, 3 Jul 2010, Steffen Mueller wrote:

> David Golden wrote:
>> However, I didn't think the expansion of commit bits was intended to
>> get more people applying other's patches.  I thought it was to let
>> dual-life maintainers update their modules directly without burdening
>> the existing committers.  Then some few of them (like me) have gone on
>> to apply patches.
>
> That's what happened to me FWIW.

At this year's YAPC:NA, mst said something similar for how the new 
perl.org web site showed up.

So I supose part of it is getting people confortable enough knowing they 
won't break perl when they push a commit and they'll slowly increase their 
comfort zone.

-- 
George Greer

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