On Aug 1, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_freebsd.org> wrote: >> Any interested party is very welcome to approach a developer and get >> added to the developer summits. Plenty of the people at the most >> recent developer summit weren't _at_freebsd.org committers - we had >> plenty of representation from companies using FreeBSD. >> >> If you want to participate, just ask a friendly developer who is going >> to the developer summit to sponsor you in going. You're pleasant in >> person, so I'd have no problem sponsoring you if I am going to an >> event. :) >> > I have a very deep, quasi-philosophical, trouble/problem with that > whole idea of sponsor-requirement to attend a such meeting. There is > just something which does not feel right about it. From my point of > view, this is a matter of common sense, focus is gonna be very narrow > and deeply technical. Attendee should go there only if they think they > will give positive feedback. As for myself, I would not attend a > developer meeting on the fiber-channel over infiniband optimization, > but would attend a developer meeting on next-generation mbuf. > > Now, maybe I'll just push the door of some developer meeting I'd be > interested in during next BSDCan, and see what happen :-) The outcome > might be interesting to study in a social interaction, prisoner > dilemma related, point-of-view. Given how ridiculously easy it is to get a proper invite, there's not need to be a jerk just to prove an obscure philosophical point about attendance. There's plenty of time to do that over the technical points being discussed. Warner > - Arnaud > >> And/or, work with warner to get improvements into the tree and someone >> will sponsor a commit bit for you. >> >> Perhaps we as developers should more openly publish the results of >> developer summits. But as I said, they're not "closed" - they're just >> "invite only for non-developers." We're not going to exclude anyone >> from coming unless they really ARE going to just sit there and troll. >> You're motivated, you're enthusiastic and you want to see things >> change for the better. You're also not confrontational in person. I >> have no problem with you coming along. >> >> >> Adrian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org"Received on Wed Aug 01 2012 - 21:28:38 UTC
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