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 697FC1381F3 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:03:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C55E21C0A8 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:03:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f181.google.com (mail-ob0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7F7F8E0603 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:25:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f181.google.com with SMTP id za17so1951744obc.40 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 03:25:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=YKS0uyOsKChvorrml587vvMkPFlAtWfdhoZyzg+0fUk=; b=qMeuGSVk+UBFNWW+tnjx9xxF1UEQsnLj0PJolRsRr/VTL5zdyFMFGjXXM2ZCz/iVFU /hXrpZPdl8QQ1egT67xkI0p6/D60ZnSg6jtjg6Gr3X1oyVbbuxvaZIQj52mlK8RsqpOC mHuN2xu2iwtV9cCeJ1JGZa690WhFN7E7IawT7JzxRLknMVAPofvQ7oRT/U+XQgqpD8hR dRKGPHvNpgFNH6HcIAkXN9cQiTl3mHkaVXiU8CHpGyxbaEizdTIi9JEXOOMrn8uY4W0o mtLY/aAbdMSQXaQ65cGj4SbxJZysjZ+gqpPpw/OZOqGniUBvdUINpbFncWig2RnJFoAr 6dhw== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.192.70 with SMTP id he6mr2652276obc.88.1353237906737; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 03:25:06 -0800 (PST) Sender: markos.chandras@gmail.com Received: by 10.76.151.8 with HTTP; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 03:25:06 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4590342.EuHlatdsbp@virtuoso> References: <50A76C95.1040904@gentoo.org> <4590342.EuHlatdsbp@virtuoso> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:25:06 +0000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: -jvlRX8TMLFRVDrkeu0rI4Fs9AA Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Feedback on recruitment process From: Markos Chandras To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 14363d98-1d99-48cb-984a-470ce95dfa98 X-Archives-Hash: 7cbf9a202f8186763d334d6cc334f6b2 On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: > On Saturday 17 of November 2012 10:53:09 Markos Chandras wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA512 >> >> Good morning, >> >> Most of you have probably noticed that the recruitment.gentoo.org >> webapp is gone[1]. We(recruiters) are in the process of reworking and >> re-evaluating the recruitment process. Right now, I am asking you to >> comment on the quizzes. Tell us if you think that some of the >> questions are obsolete, or too , or outdated etc. Moreover, if you >> have a new question in mind that you would like to see in the quizzes >> please let me know. Your feedback is valuable for us in order to come >> up with a more up2date process that would satisfy the upcoming >> developers, you as mentors and us as recruiters. I would like to ask >> you to refrain from the usual "oh git will solve everything" >> discussions that will drive this thread out of topic. At this point >> I'd like only developers to comment on this as some of them have been >> mentors and certainly all of them have done the quizzes. Users, former >> developers etc are welcome to join but at this point we need to gather >> feedback from people who have actually gone through this process. >> For your convenience, I've merged both quizzes on a Google doc[2]. >> >> [1]http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel.announce/1783 >> [2]https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pqq0ROBc7yggLRsYUKhReYQL68k1XYFZlvfqI >> 4yAt6k/edit > > Hello, > > the non-technical questions should be formed better, and probably to have > subquestions. For example, for the council question, I have been given answers > from "council is 7 people that take all decisions" to really lengthy ones that > lose the point. So I believe that it should be reformed in 4-5 questions: what > it is, how it performs, what kind of decisions it takes, how it stays alive, > how does it do the elections, who is legible to nominate/participate. We usually ask these during the recruitment sessions but yes, they should probably be part of the quiz :) > Regarding the technical ones, there is too much duplication as Tomas pointed > out already, especially regarding KEYWORDS so please do something because the > answers are pretty much the same in some of them (or even identical in 2-3 of > them) Agreed -- Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2