From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FLfpL-0002qg-8E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:19:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2LCIRv8010535; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:18:27 GMT Received: from uproxy.gmail.com (uproxy.gmail.com [66.249.92.198]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2LCFFo9025450 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:15:15 GMT Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id e2so694463ugf for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:15:15 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ixEEKj7AMHvaL9c7IVbUPBi2+JcSLKIq78F2e/p1pWOOUrHjN7EsBV9zfZLs/TzwBCHMzjy2A9TK0sIoPFhmY8splmxHcp39HjiuRAswe6uKEoxZB0XdGHFcZDXQg2bzYHGt3hZP9wRJ/peyaqAzfwSIehv+Wcjz7gNYhYQY20Q= Received: by 10.67.30.6 with SMTP id h6mr3965006ugj; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:15:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.66.249.1 with HTTP; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:15:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3b09e8e90603210415q8b36d1dpd95cf0de038c6f6b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:15:14 -0500 From: "Thomas Cort" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making the developer community more open In-Reply-To: <441F35B9.8000406@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <441F35B9.8000406@gentoo.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k2LCFFo9025450 X-Archives-Salt: 9cb1f6a5-95e2-426f-8fa0-2541ef1ed414 X-Archives-Hash: 26dfd792bc62e21de50b6e9638d4b0e1 > One of the bigger problems is that we have a huge user > community who are keen on contributing, but we have such > a high barrier for entry to the developer community. There are the arch tester[1] projects (x86, amd64, ppc, alpha (soon), and maybe others). Those lower the barrier a lot while still requiring some level of knowledge (passing the ebuild quiz). A lot of ATs eventually become devs. Maybe the various AT projects could be advertised more, like the x86 AT team was this week in GWN[2]. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/x86/arch-testers-faq.xml#whoat [2] http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060320-newsletter.xml -Thomas -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list