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qs@××××××.hu wrote: |
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> Dear Gentoo Team and Recruiters! |
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Hi Daniel and thanks for your interest. |
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> I willing to help the Gentoo Team and if it's possible, I'd love to become a member too. |
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> First, I'm willing to create hungarian translations, documentation and anything related if interested. |
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> I'm also interested in becoming package maintainer. |
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Let me start by presenting my apologies for not having replied earlier |
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to your mail. This is my second "recruiter" mail, so please forgive me |
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if anything is not clear or doesn't address your request. |
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You do not need to be a developer to help. Two good ways to start |
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are proposing solutions for bugs [1] and contributing to an overlay |
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[2] like Sunrise for example [3]. There is more information on how to |
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get involved with overlay development at [4]. You may also want to |
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have a look at the staffing needs page [5]. |
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If you have written ebuilds, feel free to submit them to bugzilla |
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[1] or sunrise [3]. This way we can all see them and help you make |
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them better. Also, you never know, some developer may like what you |
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did and commit it to the main tree. Note that we're all very busy so |
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we may not react to your bugs, but that should not prevent you from |
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filing them. Bugzilla is also used for documenting work that needs to |
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be done and following up on it, so if the bugs sit there even if |
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nobody reacts it's already useful. |
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You will need to read the Gentoo Documentation Resources [6], and more |
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specifically the Gentoo Developer Handbook [7] and the Gentoo |
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Development Guide [8]. |
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Another way to help, especially for non-technical projects, is to |
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contact people directly [9]. Be aware that they can be away though, so |
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be patient, try others on the same project, and finally get back to us |
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in case you fail to reach anybody. You may also want to look at what |
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mailing lists are of interest to you [10] and browse through the |
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archives [11] to learn what is going on. |
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Training new developers takes a lot of time and effort so we don't |
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recruit as much as we would like and need. Before you can enter the |
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recruiting process though, you'll need to show what you can do. We do |
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this for many reasons but mainly because it shows your commitment to |
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Gentoo (since training takes so much time we favor people who we know |
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will stay), it shows what your interests are (you'll need to find a |
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mentor with the same interests to start your training) and it tells us |
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how much and what kind of training you need. |
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So, start filing and more importantly fixing bugs, submit ebuilds, be |
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active on our irc channels and mailing lists, and at some point you'll |
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get noticed. When a developer notices you, (s)he may ask you to join |
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an arch testing team or offer to mentor you. When you think your work |
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is significant enough and you find out that nobody notices you when |
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they should be, feel free to contact us again and we'll try and |
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arrange the situation. |
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Have you tried to reach the Documentation[12] project? I'm cc'ing them |
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on this mail. I'm sending this to their mailing list (check [12] if you |
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want to subscribe it). |
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> I'm a 24 years old web developer / system administrator from Hungary, Budapest. I've been using Gentoo Linux for more than 4 years now and I decided to help if I can. |
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> I also have a relatively big server park (5+) with Gentoo Linux on it and I have a several development systems available at home / work. |
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> I already been in contact with a person from the Gentoo Team a few years ago (Patrick Lauer), because I had full gentoo mirror and been doing the hungarian gentoo hq (gentoo.hu), but unfortunately Patrick and I had real life problems and had to stop everything. |
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> But now I'm back and contacting you guys, how can I help? :) |
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Are there any particular areas that interest you, besides documentation? |
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Have you tried to join any project's irc channels[13]? Sometimes the |
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best way to get a mentor is through direct contact with devs - be it |
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through bugzilla, mls or irc. |
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Are you still interested in providing an Hungarian mirror? Are you |
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involved or would like to be involved with infra work? |
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Do not hesitate to contact recruiters in the future in case you need |
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more information. |
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> Best regards, |
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> Daniel Nagy |
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Regards, |
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Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org |
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Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / SPARC / KDE |
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PS - As I've stated, this is my second "recuiters" mail, so I would |
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appreciate any feedback you may have. |
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[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/ |
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[2] http://overlays.gentoo.org/ |
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[3] http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/ |
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[4] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml#doc_chap3 |
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[5] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/staffing-needs/ |
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[6] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=gentoodev |
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[7] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml |
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[8] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ |
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[9] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/index.xml?showlevel=2 |
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[10] http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml |
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[11] http://archives.gentoo.org/ |
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[12] - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/index.xml |
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[13] - http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/irc.xml |
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