<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>I'm forwarding this to -devel for wider comment. I think contributing to Darcs is harder and less inviting than it need be. Do you agree ? Any ideas about things we could do to update our process ?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Simon Michael <<a href="mailto:simon@joyful.com">simon@joyful.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Re: join the darcs team?</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">May 8, 2012 6:47:07 AM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Eric Kow <<a href="mailto:kowey@darcs.net">kowey@darcs.net</a>>, <a href="mailto:ganesh@earth.li">ganesh@earth.li</a><br></span></div><br><div>By the way I wonder if it would be wise to keep going and open up/loosen up/democratise the Darcs Team further ? With you two busy, and noone else obviously on the team, it has felt a bit closed/declining/anti-contributory. I know code review is important for Darcs and we still need that in some form. Feel free to reply on list if you prefer. <br><br>Thanks for your service guys,<br>-Simon<br><br>On May 8, 2012, at 6:37 AM, Simon Michael wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi Eric. Thanks for asking. I'd be glad to, if that's the best way to facilitate the process. Ganesh also mentioned splitting off the site repo as a possibility. <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On May 8, 2012, at 12:22 AM, Eric Kow wrote:</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Thanks for your work on the darcs homepage, Simon.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Would you consider just up and joining the Darcs core team so you can make changes directly?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">The idea is that you'd focus on patches to doc, and perhaps gradually expand your “remit”/comfort zone over time<br></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>