Core Developer application for Michael Casadevall (NCommander/sonicmctails)

[Steve Kowalik]

Michael Casadevall wrote:
> Steve Kowalik wrote:
>> It's all very well and good to say that you can step down before burning
>> out, but stepping down from things that you have started as a core-dev
>> often has a considerably larger effect on the wider Ubuntu Community, as
>> so many more people are exposed to your work in the first place. This is
>> why sustained contribution in the first place is so important -- because
>> Ubuntu, like every other software project, tries to minimise people
>> walking away from the project, and parts of the project suffering, or
>> even being removed completely, as a result.
>>
> 
> I don't disagree with you here, and your right, having someone who was
> working on a project die on that project is a bad thing, something I am
> always working to try and avoid on my projects, I still fail to see what
> having upload rights to main has to do with this. The only difference
> between a MOTU and being a core developer is I don't have to pester core
> sponsors

This is the crux of the issue -- It is not just upload rights, and if
you're under that impression, then you aren't ready. Main is important,
and more often than not, will directly affect CD image builds. You fail
to keep this in mind, and just think that core-dev is *just* about
upload rights.

There are other things at work here, that I've already mentioned in an
other e-mail. It isn't that they directly affect your rights to the
archive, but they show me that you switch from project to project
quickly, whereas a more sustained contribution to large-scale projects
would be better.

Thanks,
-- 
                                        Steve
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