Re: [gentoo-dev] Who is willing to be lead?

[Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto]

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Allo.

On 10-04-2010 14:09, Vincent-Xavier JUMEL wrote:
> Le samedi 10 avril 2010 15:53:48, Petteri Räty a écrit :
>> As people seem to want the council to take action I offer to take
>> action. As it's impossible for me to do everything myself I offer to act
>> as a project manager/owner for people willing to donate their time to
>> whatever I see worthy for Gentoo as whole like the web page redesign.
>> Basically you tell me how many hours you have and I'll give you stuff to
>> work on. It might not be glorious at times like cleaning up a piece of
>> documentation but why not spend an hour a week on something that
>> benefits the project? If people are interested, I'll work out the details.
>>
> Since I'm quite new to this list, I'll start by a quick presentation.
>
> I'm a french math teacher who loves computer science and Free Software. I've
> discovered Gentoo circa 2004 at school and since then it perfectly matches my
> needs and way of thinking.
>
> I'm writing some personal ebuilds that I've never took time to clean up and
> upload to sunrise since it works for me. You may find a sympa ebuild at my
> personal repo[1]
>
> I'm not sure I've enough time to involve myself as a Gentoo developer (even if
> a maintain my own sympa ebuild and other) but I want to help Gentoo project.
>
> I could easily donate some time, but I don't know where to begin, so I'm glad
> of your offer to direct me to something useful.

I'm sending you an email directly (and cc'ing Recruiters and User
Relations) as I want to try to get some accomplishment from all the buzz
in our mailing lists.

In case you want to know more about the recruitment process, I'm posting
below our (recruiters) default reply to such inquiries.

If you suspect or conclude that you don't have the time and or
motivation to become a Gentoo Developer, I'd still like very much to see
how we can help you contribute to Gentoo in a way that his rewarding to
you and that will be of help to the whole community.

To that effect, are there any particular areas in Gentoo that you would
like to contribute to or do you have particular skills that you think
could be of use to Gentoo? What communication channels are you willing
and or capable to use? I'll do my best to try find the relevant teams on
Gentoo and get you in touch with their developers.

> Cheers
>
> [1] : http://redmine.thetys-retz.net/projects/overlay
>
> P.S. Sorry, this web page is still in French as my signature

No problem. I can read French and we do have some French speaking
developers. I will try to save you from my "murdering" of the language
though ;-) and will reply in English or let one of the others reply in
French.

Please feel free to email me directly, poke me on the Freenode or OFTC
IRC networks (my nick is jmbsvicetto) as well as emailing the recruiters
or userrel alias for any further requests, questions or comments. We'd
also like to hear any suggestions you may have.


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We are very actively looking for interested people. You can start
contributing right now if you want. Two good ways to start are
proposing solutions for bugs [1] and contributing to an overlay [2]
like Sunrise for example [3]. There is more information on how to
get involved with overlay development at [4]. You may also want to
have a look at the staffing needs page [5].

If you have written ebuilds, feel free to submit them to bugzilla
[1] or sunrise [3]. This way we can all see them and help you make
them better. Also, you never know, some developer may like what you
did and commit it to the main tree. Note that we're all very busy so
we may not react to your bugs, but that should not prevent you from
filing them. Bugzilla is also used for documenting work that needs to
be done and following up on it, so if the bugs sit there even if
nobody reacts it's already useful.

You will need to read the Gentoo Documentation Resources [6], and more
specifically the Gentoo Developer Handbook [7] and the Gentoo
Development Guide [8].

Another way to help, especially for non-technical projects, is to
contact people directly [9]. Be aware that they can be away though, so
be patient, try others on the same project, and finally get back to us
in case you fail to reach anybody. You may also want to look at what
mailing lists are of interest to you [10] and browse through the
archives [11] to learn what is going on.

Training new developers takes a lot of time and effort so we don't
recruit as much as we would like and need. Before you can enter the
recruiting process though, you'll need to show what you can do. We do
this for many reasons but mainly because it shows your commitment to
Gentoo (since training takes so much time we favor people who we know
will stay), it shows what your interests are (you'll need to find a
mentor with the same interests to start your training) and it tells us
how much and what kind of training you need.

So, start filing and more importantly fixing bugs, submit ebuilds, be
active on our irc channels and mailing lists, and at some point you'll
get noticed. When a developer notices you, (s)he may ask you to join
an arch testing team, an herd or offer to mentor you. When you think
your work is significant enough and you find out that nobody notices
you when they should be, feel free to contact us again and we'll try
and arrange the situation.

Are there any particular areas that interest you? Have you tried to
join any project's irc channels[12]? Sometimes the best way to get
a mentor is through direct contact with devs - be it through
bugzilla, mls or irc.

Do not hesitate to contact recruiters in the future in case you need
more information.

 [1] - http://bugs.gentoo.org/
 [2] - http://overlays.gentoo.org/
 [3] - http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/
 [4] - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml#doc_chap3
 [5] - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/staffing-needs/
 [6] - http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=gentoodev
 [7] - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml
 [8] - http://devmanual.gentoo.org/
 [9] - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/index.xml?showlevel=2
[10] - http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml
[11] - http://archives.gentoo.org/
[12] - http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/irc.xml


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Regards,

Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / KDE / Elections
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