* Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] recruitment process
@ 2010-04-05 17:57 99% ` Jon Portnoy
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From: Jon Portnoy @ 2010-04-05 17:57 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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.
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