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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Xavier Neys wrote: |
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> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:15:06 +0200 |
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> From: Xavier Neys <neysx@g.o> |
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> Reply-To: gentoo-devrel@l.g.o |
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> To: Flammie Pirinen <flammie@××××××××.fi> |
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> Cc: gentoo-devrel@l.g.o |
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> Subject: [gentoo-devrel] Re: Finnish translator status |
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> Flammie Pirinen wrote: |
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> > I'm sorry if I have missed something, but is there something specific I |
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> > should be doing now to get things progressing, apart from qa-checking |
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> > and bugzillaing rest of the important document translations? I haven't |
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> > received any info from anyone so I was just wondering if my over active |
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> > spam filtering or something similar made me miss something important. |
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> > And about the quiz answers, the reason they were a bit brief is that I |
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> > couldn't quite motivate myself as to why a documentation translator |
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> > would need to have solid knowledge about ebuild development mechanics. I |
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> > mostly just answered what I had learned from translating the handbooks |
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> > and by experience within few years. |
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His quiz is fine, most of us however have been a bit sidetracked with a |
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combination of work, school, and working on the topics discussed in |
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tuesday's meeting. |
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I will say however that yes, a docs person is still a dev, and is |
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expected to have some knolage of gentoo. The staff quiz is not that |
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dificult, and has maybe 1 or 2 technical questions;p |
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> Hi Flammie, |
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> devrel should contact you to set up your account. |
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> You're right about the quiz being useless at assessing whether a doc |
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> translator would be up to the task but a Lead/Follow-up Translator is also a |
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> Doc Dev and a Gentoo Dev and it is fair to expect any dev has a minimum of |
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> knowledge about Gentoo. |
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> I trust the devrel team take the position asked into account when assessing a |
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> candidate's answers to the quiz. |
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> Considering you won't be able to screw up portage, I hope it won't take too |
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> long to set you up. |
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I'm going to try and get him set up today now that things have settled |
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down a bit, assuming I don't get swamped withwork/school stuff. |
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> FWIW, I was quite happy with the answers you sent to recruiters@g.o |
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> Given the contacts we've had on IRC and the translations you have already |
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> submitted on b.g.o, I am quite confident you'll do a good job and your |
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> mentorship period should not last too long, depending on your activity of course. |
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> With kind regards, |
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