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[dalibor topic]

No worries,

I'll take any opportunity to quote Shakespeare in the context of open 
source development that I can. ;)

cheers,
dalibor topic

On 19.10.2018 13:26, Martijn Verburg wrote:
> And further to this, I do apologize for attacking your thread in 
> particular - that wasn't my intention but it was really poor behavior on 
> my part.  I'd like to make it clear that you in particular are extremely 
> helpful to newcomers at OpenJDK more than anyone!  A salient reminder to 
> think before I type in future.
> 
> Cheers,
> Martijn
> 
> 
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 at 12:15, Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com 
> <mailto:martijnverburg at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Dalibor,
> 
>     I appreciate we have everything written down in official documents. 
>     What I'm saying is that we (and I *very much* include myself in
>     this) need to start changing the culture of how we deal with new folks.
> 
>     A message like - "Hey thanks for wanting to contribute, the link
>     below will tell you how to communicate with the right folks to about
>     your suggested contribution" as opposed to "you need to be an author
>     - go read a doc".  You can hopefully see that if we use the first
>     style of communication, people are far more likely to follow through
>     and stick around.
> 
>     Cheers,
>     Martijn
> 
> 
>     On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 at 12:11, dalibor topic
>     <dalibor.topic at oracle.com <mailto:dalibor.topic at oracle.com>> wrote:
> 
>         On 19.10.2018 12:46, Martijn Verburg wrote:
>          > Instead, we should offer to introduce that
>          > person to someone who *does* have the right level of access
> 
>         If you read the document I linked to at
>         http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#project-author - you'll notice
>         that it
>         says "Any Contributor may request the Author role by contacting the
>         relevant Project Lead" in the first sentence.
> 
>         The Project Lead of a given OpenJDK Project is someone who has
>         the right
>         level of access and can help new Contributors further as
>         necessary. They
>         can be reached through the Project's mailing list.
> 
>         For example, in this case, the Project Lead might say that the
>         OS X Port
>         project has been integrated into the JDK mainline several years
>         ago and
>         therefore the Project's wiki is no longer really useful or used
>         as a
>         source of current information, i.e. it might be better to remove it
>         rather than to improve it, given that the last edit was more
>         than five
>         years ago.
> 
>         Or they might say something entirely different. I don't know.
>         That's
>         what mailing lists are for.
> 
>         cheers,
>         dalibor topic
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