Hello,  Joonas

On 28.06.2020 14:43, Joonas Niilola wrote:
> This is the yearly repeating question: How do you view the current
> recruitment status in Gentoo?
>
> In your opinion...
>  - are we getting enough new devs on board?
No
>  - does the current recruitment system work?
Clarification needed. Do we define "recruitment" as a period of time
between quizzes submission  and the final decision, or do we also
include mentoring period?
The hardest part of the entire process is mentoring.
It is really _hard_ to find a mentor. Very little amount of people
want to devote their time on teaching, even less do it with
great enthusiasm. From my  very personal observations
the more time a mentee spends with a mentor the less time
a recruiter spends to finish the review.
>  - can the current devbase handle "everything" (we have a lot of
> low-manned projects)? If not, how could council aid in?
We could do much better, that is for sure.

>  - why do we have hundreds of contributors who'll never become devs? (is
> there a problem in "marketing", or is the recruitment process too hard,
> or something else?)
Some people consider quizzes difficult, overall, I have already explained
before why quizzes are like that. I could only repeat myself, but
I guess you know the answer (not sure if I must bring this up to the thread
again). Apart from that, proxied contributions are easier
to conduct and a proxied person takes much less responsibility.

>  - should council stay away from this topic, and leave every decision to
> recruiters? (If I remember correctly, recruiters project were dropped to
> 1 person because they had internal issues deciding how to handle future
> recruitment). I'm also asking this because I have a suggestion to renew
> recruitment process a bit. Should I post my suggestion to -core for
> every dev to see, -project for everyone to see, or contact recruiters
> who can silently approve/disapprove/modify my suggestion, without anyone
> else knowing what I suggested?

The entire story was based on the opinion of a single council member
who suddenly decided not to contact recruiters before posting anything
to the - core ml. I guess this was explained very well by gokturk.

If you are interested in helping out, consider this my reply an invitation
to become a recruiter.
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> -- juippis
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