On Thursday, 18 August 2005 05:52 am, George Shapovalov wrote:
> I used to put out calls for new/interested devs to help
> Scientific Gentoo, when I was more active, and the responce
> was rather positive. However recently I did not have enough
> time to devote to training of new devs, so that slipped by. I
> think it would be usefull to reinstate that initiative, but
> first we need to get a head-count of who feels like doing the
> training. Should we have a 1 year as a dev  requirement for
> the trainers? (not the trainees of course! They are even
> better picked up from science than from Linux althogether :))
> I would think so, given complexity of Gentoo nowadays and that
> last thing we want to do is to screw our comprehension by
> scientific community :).

Unless I am mistaken, any Gentoo developer is free to open a "New 
developer" bug for consideration by our recruiters team, as long 
as he is willing to mentor the recruit. I see no reason for the 
sci team to impose additional restrictions upon its members. I 
think we can trust the judgement of the mentoring dev on this.

I am ready to mentor a candidate. I have the necessary free time 
right now and will have it for a few months. I have already 
mentored someone once and found it a very rewarding experience.

Since everybody agrees that we need more hands, I asked 
recruiters to update the Staffing Needs on the gentoo.org Web 
site to reflect this.

Kind regards,

-- 
Olivier Fisette (ribosome)
Gentoo Linux Developer
Scientific applications, Developer relations