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 632571381F3 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2013 11:58:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D15DE0B09; Fri, 2 Aug 2013 11:58:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 09D9CE0A60 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2013 11:58:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.4.5] (blfd-4db0f864.pool.mediaWays.net [77.176.248.100]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: hasufell) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C594D33EB70 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2013 11:58:40 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <51FB9EEB.5030706@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 13:58:35 +0200 From: hasufell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130630 Thunderbird/17.0.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo is so AWESOME References: <51F80310.9070006@gentoo.org> <51F850C3.6060301@orlitzky.com> <20130801111736.GA7924@nicolas-desktop.logifi.fr> <20130801121107.GB7924@nicolas-desktop.logifi.fr> <51FA540F.7010105@gentoo.org> <20130801131543.GC7924@nicolas-desktop.logifi.fr> <20130802104744.GA2833@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> <20130802111607.GD14268@nicolas-desktop.logifi.fr> In-Reply-To: <20130802111607.GD14268@nicolas-desktop.logifi.fr> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6a1pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 84e54bc0-f476-4446-bf65-cc60e973a86e X-Archives-Hash: 5d577d83b02e25b0e0e5267dbeb032c0 On 08/02/2013 01:16 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: >> And if you cba to review the basics, stuff most users know, or can find out easily, >> what makes you think you're cut out to be a developer? >> >> Please note I'm not discussing any technical ability you may or may not have with >> bash, ebuilds or upstream sources. Just your ability to find out the basics, which >> is much less difficult than installing Gentoo in the first place. >> >> If you want/ed to be a developer, my advice would always be: show you're useful, not >> that you need hand-holding and ego-stroking from the get-go. > > I've been an occasionnal contributor to Git, the active maintainer of > OfflineIMAP for more than a year and I'm maintainer and developer at > $DAY_JOB since years. I turned the OfflineIMAP worflow from one > maintainer into a team of official maintainers. This is merely one > example of my contributions to the open source world and when it comes > to recruitement, workflow and decision processes I think I know what I'm > talking about. > We mainly care about gentoo contributions when it comes to gentoo recruitment and do not let people in, just because they are developers. That is not even a requirement. So we are pretty open to new contributors.