From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JPgfQ-0006eP-4O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:10:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 58A95E0998; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:08:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA48E0998 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:08:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so1039644ugf.49 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:08:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=V7Zzi64wQmRPmlKBVNIc8CGpPBJLJXXj1vcw2woLeOM=; b=CGTgRcqd31qmf3nipr+2Oh/BmGG7+vGXzZYFU/xrRuugwxoovjeJvX7vzCTrr+H0hoQUu8V4dpgwDKedpAlcGvxde9kb1p6sPP8GZoyhAsmM5srDIdscGRHY2cvCciq4kPno27CBaNtVQtYUaEpcijEyMaOYSDmI6v7YnGaKoJQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Sqvozz1IgnMUBwe+0dUVZkP6a0h7cWuRtROvoCkM+DBGhW6GdA1kzZWb72cirmvos4lqLvXIk52ux+Xx5mi8iYfoUsbZFpgpxuVCZ0Y79GWUw1c0Ud7iLG3HWpm7W5y1VjujfRg/rYQz/1S3/DtXkOVWhaBIX4M7hIILAB9v2E0= Received: by 10.67.30.6 with SMTP id h6mr363783ugj.6.1203005327019; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:08:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.36? ( [81.79.219.236]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e1sm15087955ugf.34.2008.02.14.08.08.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:08:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <47B4678B.5030304@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:08:43 +0000 From: George Prowse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Denis Dupeyron , gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-nfp] Re: How to improve the trustees References: <20080203092230.17f7044b@gentoo.org> <7c612fc60802140131m8de24b6mad74d65ead2569fb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7c612fc60802140131m8de24b6mad74d65ead2569fb@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ec7cad18-00c4-4fad-b8c8-ebe950cb3f80 X-Archives-Hash: 887ea411641dbebdee12e62b832c302f Denis Dupeyron wrote: > On Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Jan Bilek wrote: >> But some >> people claim it is because of a lack of manpower in Gentoo - in that >> case we might want to re-think recruitment process. > One. There is no waiting list for recruitment. You could be in > recruitment today if you wanted. Notice that, if *you* wanted. If > people spent as much time contributing as they spend thinking they're > thinking, circling around the obvious and regurgitating randomness, > we'd be one damn active project. And don't tell me you don't have time > or don't have the competence. None of us have time but we make it, > plus you spent some writing this rather long email and others. And we > don't only need technical people. I'd even say today we mostly need > non-technical people. The staff quiz takes only a few minutes. > > Two. You don't need to be a dev to contribute. Actually, being a dev > means contributing like any user plus having the responsibility of > dealing with the everyday mess (to say it mildly). I can tell you it's > not fun everyday, so you may want to stay a contributing user. Having > cvs commit rights will not make your penis any larger, but could > result in your significant other walking away without you even seeing > it. > > Three. You're on the nfp list. If you really want to improve > recruitment, you want to talk to devrel's recruitment subproject. That is what needs to be told to the community, not just one person. I'm pretty sure that if more people knew that then there would be a large influx of people. Has Gentoo never done a recruitment drive? I'm sure I could help and/or fix it all up to start within a week for you... -- gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org mailing list