From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JhDQh-0003Vi-Ul for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:35:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 681D1E045F; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 00:35:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.obsidian-studios.com (mail.obsidian-studios.com [66.129.85.198]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D85AE045F for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 00:35:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 25049 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2008 00:35:32 -0000 Received: from mail.obsidian-studios.com (HELO ?192.168.1.211?) (192.168.0.51) by mail.obsidian-studios.com with SMTP; 3 Apr 2008 00:35:32 -0000 Received: from 76.18.195.255 ([76.18.195.255] helo=[192.168.1.211]) by assp.obsidian-studios.com; 2 Apr 2008 20:35:32 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April From: "William L. Thomson Jr." To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <47F3F860.6080200@gentoo.org> References: <20080401092610.EEF7467349@smtp.gentoo.org> <47F3F098.1050508@gentoo.org> <47F3F860.6080200@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-yb66dCEID9pLe2iL0yVZ" Organization: Gentoo Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:35:13 -0400 Message-Id: <1207182913.16176.49.camel@wlt.obsidian-studios.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 X-Archives-Salt: 44bad8c0-e373-47a7-9af9-f9a9548d5ff4 X-Archives-Hash: eb49a8b666ce61b8db1cfd152eb5c2ba --=-yb66dCEID9pLe2iL0yVZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 22:19 +0100, Mike Auty wrote: > Petteri R=C3=A4ty wrote: > > Defining required amount of activity for ebuild devs. I would like us t= o=20 > > raise the required amount of activity for ebuild devs. >=20 > Given that the low number of developers is ranked as our number one=20 > problem in Donnie's informal survey[1], taking any kind of action=20 > against infrequently-committing developers is likely to reduce the=20 > number of devs we have, and potentially make the problem worse. It's about quality not quantity maybe? > What benefits are you aiming to get from the suggestion? I can think og=20 > keeping the books tidy and reducing management time required to maintain=20 > the devs. Are there others I've missed? If they're worth the=20 > cost/effort involved with putting someone through the dev tests and=20 > getting them trained, then it seems a good idea, but otherwise probably=20 > not... Well I think in part is keeping up with changes within Gentoo. Since I joined we have change the syntax and semantics of Gentoo Java ebuilds allot. Lots of things wrt to ebuilds constantly change. So could be more of your game. If your not keeping u[, you run the greater chance of falling behind, etc. The other side of that, and maybe it's part of the above suggestion, is re-taking the quizzes. I have long thought, just like driving tests. That maybe every so often existing devs should re-take the quizzes. The quizzes do change at times. Much less if your skills are sharp, should only take a few minutes if that. ( Mostly thinking of myself when I think about re-taking quizzes ;) ) I take it as an all around approach to increased QA. Possible motivator for developer activity with some very reasonable minimum requirements. Surely could have side effects, but not a horrible idea --=20 William L. Thomson Jr. amd64/Java/Trustees Gentoo Foundation --=-yb66dCEID9pLe2iL0yVZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBH9CZBPrChP8zZLyYRAm5uAKCTMIClS522SeDJNmuSx5GGT20oEgCfdDf3 cH/AR81vghoOVE+AUi568kY= =T5a7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-yb66dCEID9pLe2iL0yVZ-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list