On 19-Jan-01 Nik Clayton wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:29:33AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
>> heavy (lots of coders).  However, part of this derives from its nature: the
>> reason people are committers is because they can add something to the
>> repository.  Things like articles in magazines aren't stored in the CVS
>> repository, so they don't lend themselve s to gaining commit access as it 
>> were. 
> 
> Oh yes they are.  doc/<lang>/articles/.
> 
> There's a distinct lack of people handling them at the moment, and my
> spare time is somewhat limited at the moment, but the facility is there.

Erm, so far we haven't had copies of articles sent in to DDJ, which is what I
was hinting at.  I was not aware that we wished to import such things.  My
point was more that there are things that one can do to contribute to the
project that aren't rewarded with committership at the moment.  If that makes
any sense.

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