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Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o> posted |
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20090506083356.4a561ea2@g.o, excerpted below, on Wed, 06 May 2009 |
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08:33:56 +0200: |
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> Apart from growing into your job (that's what happened with me), |
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> recruiters do quite long IRC sessions with the applicant. Apart from |
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> questions not found in the quiz they want people to elaborate on answers |
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> they made. |
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As others have occasionally noted, the assumption seems to be that |
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developers "do" IRC. While it's certainly a useful thing for those that |
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do it, I believe I've seen a few developers speak up from time to time |
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that say they do little if any IRC at all, doing their Gentoo comms via |
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email (including the lists), bugs, and of course commits. Does the way |
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remain open for such recruits? This subthread would suggest not, that |
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IRC is now considered not just convenient or useful, but mandatory. I'd |
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call that a shame, as it could well block otherwise productive potential |
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devs. |
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If it's not assumed mandatory, perhaps a bit more care should be taken to |
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avoid creating that impression, thereby discouraging potentially valuable |
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recruits. |
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Maybe the world has moved on and email, etc, is now as impractical for |
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development as snail mail. If so, I suppose it has left us old fogies |
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behind, but somehow, I don't believe it's gone /that/ far yet, nor can I |
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believe it will in the intermediate term future, at least. If it were, |
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after all, this list should be near deserted. It's obviously not. |
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-- |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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