Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] recruitment process

[Jon Portnoy <avenj@eris.oppresses.us>]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:50:49PM +0100, George Prowse wrote:
> That assumes the system is working perfectly and the whole fact that
> we are having this discussion would go against that.
> 
> From what i've read in the community, lots of people would have no
> problems helping out maintaining packages, they just don't want the
> baggage that comes with it.
> 
> You could say they're lazy or they're not the "type of developers
> you want" but at the end of the day they're just different
> developers, most of whom probably just want to make sure the
> packages they like are in the tree and updated.

Which is all well and good -- the "you wrote some ebuilds so here's
your commit privs and @gentoo.org" approach to recruitment worked great
when Gentoo had a few dozen developers.

Today QA is a bit more important, and development is often rather more
complex than "new version, bump the ebuild" -- it's important that new
developers have a firm understanding of ebuild complexities.

I have no dog in this fight, I don't even like resurfacing to post to -dev.
Just here to offer some insight on why we originally kept the quiz system.