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On Wed, 7 Dec 2016, Duncan wrote: |
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> james posted on Tue, 06 Dec 2016 22:10:16 -0500 as excerpted: |
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>> Really, for someone like me, it is just best to avoid irc. |
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> FWIW, some 12 years ago now, in 2004, I started using gentoo, with the |
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> intent of contributing and potentially eventually becoming a dev. |
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> Somewhere along the line but rather early in the process, I read that IRC |
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> was absolutely required at least for the final interview, and given that |
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> I too strongly prefer email (or for group communications better yet |
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> newsgroups, with gmane being that bridge for most mailing lists), I |
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> decided my contributions, such as they are, can be better made either |
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> elsewhere, or to gentoo, but without becoming a dev. |
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> Much later, likely after some recruiters project changes, someone from |
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> recruiters clarified that IRC on the final interview isn't actually |
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> /required/, there might be ways around it in individual cases. |
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> Apparently it does need to be real-time synchronous for some reason, but |
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> he suggested that a (VoIP?) phone call or the like could be arranged as |
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> an alternative. In theory I could do that. |
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> Now it seems to be IRC hard-required again. <shrug> |
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I'm asking recuiters directly, but unless someone changed the rules and I |
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was distracted, irc is not mandatory. |
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More important than an irc review session though, we have several |
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developers that rarely, if ever, do irc, so it's certainly possible to be |
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a Gentoo Developer and not maintain a regular irc presence. |
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To be clear, irc is a good a way to be part of the team and to quickly |
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talk to others, so we should encourage its use. But encouraging something |
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is not the same as making it mandatory. |
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About not really wanting contribution and making up "barriers", the |
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"barriers" we've put are in our view required to make sure people have a |
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real interest in being in this community and know enough to be able to |
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maintain packages (for those applying for ::gentoo access). |
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Best regards, |
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Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto |
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Gentoo Developer |
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PS - Let's please move all this discussion to the project ml as this |
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clearly doesn't belong in the gentoo-dev ml. |
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