From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes Sender: B.Stephens@isode.com To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: Two questions References: <990126223651.ZM26737@candle.brasslantern.com> <19990127105955.A5407@fysh.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Bruce Stephens Date: 27 Jan 1999 11:33:11 +0000 In-Reply-To: mason@primenet.com.au's message of "27 Jan 1999 11:13:31 GMT" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.070069 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.69) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) X-Mailing-List: 5058 mason@primenet.com.au (Geoff Wing) writes: > Phil Pennock typed: > :I'm not a key developer, > > Who are these ``key developer''s? We just have > 1) a bunch of general users submitting changes, releasing them on the > (unsuspecting *) beta testers, then sending patches to fix the > typos/brainos/whatever. > 2) a coordinator (or, as now, pro tem. coordinator) who somehow gets all > those patches which look/sound/feel OK to not collide. Sure, but there are a few people who actually do this, and rather more of us who foolishly download the code and merely complain about it. (And all of us, of course, occasionally praise it, often in terms like "Good grief, I didn't know it could do *that*. Heck, it's even in the documentation. How have I missed that for years?".)