On Sun, 06 Apr 2014 12:47:14 +0000
hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Andreas K. Huettel:
> > 5) The council encourages teams maintaining central parts of Gentoo
> > to accept new developers as team members and teach them the
> > required knowledge and intricacies. We consider this important to
> > ensure long-term continuity and increase the bus factor in critical
> > areas.
> > 
> 
> Or don't accept them as team members in the first place, which is
> perfectly fine if you can still contribute as a non-team member.
> 
> Letting someone in and then starting to teach him seems like the wrong
> approach to me.
> 
> We should encourage the opposite order.

That's all very well, but there are maybe two or three Gentoo
developers left who actually understand all the details and how the big
picture works when it comes to ebuilds.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh