[Pkg-electronics-devel] Request to join the Debian Electronics group - Jaminy Prabaharan

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 03:47:41PM +0200, Carsten Schoenert wrote:
> Hello Jaminy,
> 
> please use Reply all so the list get your answer as well. And also
> please do not top posting. It's hard to read.
> 
> Am 12.08.18 um 15:23 schrieb Jaminy Prabaharan:
> > Hi Carsten,
> > 
> > I was there for DebConf this year. I got suggestions regarding this
> > team, since I did my degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering.
> > I would like to contribute to some projects and maintain package if
> > possible.
> 
> It's not that we don't want to give access to you on the group on Salsa,
> but we would like to know what kind of people we would give access then.
> There comes also some responsibility with that access rights.
> 
> I was also at DebConf, but I can't remember to have detailed conversions
> to non DDs in Hsinchu about joining the Salsa group of Debian
> Electronics in detail, bot this does means nothing. Did you have talked
> to other members of the group?
> 
> For the start there is no hard reason to have direct access to the Salsa
> group, for contributing there is always the possibility to fork an
> existing git tree and request a merge request if you want to start
> contributing. If things going well and you have some more experience
> about packaging it's later easy to grant access to the group then.
> 
> This is not to treat newcomers, but we need to have some trust to the
> knowledge of the requester that there is not accidentally something
> broken later that's needs at least time to get this fixed.
> 
> So as I know currently quite nothing about your skills and work and you
> haven't pointed to something you have done in the past I'm currently not
> really convinced to give you access to the group.

I can confirm that I promised to mentor Jaminy in kind of a MoM[1]
project.  I do not plan to contribute to Debian Electronics regularly
but for the time of mentoring it would probably helpful to have commit
permissions to the repository Jaminy will be working on.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM

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