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| From: | Thomas Cort <linuxgeek@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Making the developer community more open | ||
| Date: | Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:19:07 | ||
| Message-Id: | 3b09e8e90603210415q8b36d1dpd95cf0de038c6f6b@mail.gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] Making the developer community more open by Daniel Drake |
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| 1 | > One of the bigger problems is that we have a huge user |
| 2 | > community who are keen on contributing, but we have such |
| 3 | > a high barrier for entry to the developer community. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | There are the arch tester[1] projects (x86, amd64, ppc, alpha (soon), |
| 6 | and maybe others). Those lower the barrier a lot while still requiring |
| 7 | some level of knowledge (passing the ebuild quiz). A lot of ATs |
| 8 | eventually become devs. Maybe the various AT projects could be |
| 9 | advertised more, like the x86 AT team was this week in GWN[2]. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/x86/arch-testers-faq.xml#whoat |
| 12 | [2] http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060320-newsletter.xml |
| 13 | |
| 14 | -Thomas |
| 15 | |
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