From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFAEF1381F3 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:47:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11C2621C064; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:47:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vb0-f53.google.com (mail-vb0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EB47621C04E for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:47:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vb0-f53.google.com with SMTP id b23so6315411vbz.40 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 09:47:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=wyiiC9xZHtH5TnZPMLu1ajTRS5bFT8Ru/ZDF4At1b44=; b=ZZavS6N8sx948trI5KlyafqRe5W59DxX9AT6qGEXUUVOXhxjxG1yIxCsmOFWwbAAPl u648C/BaoIwNWWNZBt6mwBS+saDUH7Dynw0oy+uk78vNLrEk231fmbnoIFO7GgXbtwxM OhPz2YGfe+zxSQm+89A78D5aygejBoCJ69LGPNR2n41ezho/o1ms27YO/wwzKt0jC08y UcESq3/TJkTv0lK1aTClrn9A+aKtoQqPTnKZlni8Kor/2yqAfWA/BGq0yLxznS031pMP X+1pA9kmki6h5z9Tk8CeleuJpcTQpPI73lfA1Yq0zjxosTMINsSRl1n2h4fi3JBBIKDK 8RaQ== Received: by 10.52.35.129 with SMTP id h1mr16942034vdj.74.1355680022977; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 09:47:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (modemcable092.159-23-96.mc.videotron.ca. [96.23.159.92]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g5sm9037950vez.6.2012.12.16.09.47.02 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 16 Dec 2012 09:47:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50CE098F.5050300@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:49:03 -0500 From: Damien Levac User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...) References: <50CDFD7F.7040207@orlitzky.com> In-Reply-To: <50CDFD7F.7040207@orlitzky.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 172996ed-6644-4b8a-8ee7-0e606d2ba1fe X-Archives-Hash: 9995e88a5f204c650d2ec13a62e8f2c2 I completely agree, myself, I want to become a developer, but since the information looks so scattered, I decided to wait until summer to have all the required time to find/read all relevant documentation and foillow up with the recruitment process (which seems to be somehow 'non-trivial'). As an aside, which may or may not reflect the view of other potential candidates, even though I use git for my personal projects, having to learn CVS would not be an issue if I'm already willing to learn everything else. (However, if there is no guarantee that this will be useful, why is it a requirement in the first place?) Damien On 12/16/12 11:57, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > Inspired by the number of packages being unmaintained -- why not use > some of that bug bounty money to fix up the recruitment documentation > and maybe give the webpage a makeover? Marketing is a big part of the > problem. > > 1. Even MediaWiki (wiki.gentoo.org) looks better than www.gentoo.org. > That's impressive-bad. > > People still think of Gentoo as a ricer distro that's broken all > the time, when in reality, it's one of the most stable. No one > would suspect that anything has changed, though, since the > homepage hasn't since before I could drink beer. > > It makes the entire distro look unmaintained. > > 2. Nowhere is it actually spelled out how to become a developer. > Let's google "how to become a gentoo developer." This takes me > to... > >> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1&chap=2 > which as far as I know, is complete bullshit. I should look for an > opening in the monthly newsletter? Really? Or in #gentoo-bugs? > > 3. Get off CVS for Christ's sake. Nobody wants to work with that. I > don't know how this fits into my bullet list, but it's important. > > All three of those problems are boring and will suck to fix -- perfect > candidates for bug bounties. > >