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On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:32:35 +0400 |
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Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o> wrote: |
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> 21.08.2013 12:13, Tom Wijsman пишет: |
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> > Recruiting shows to be a hard task; so, the suggestions I am doing |
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> > are assuming that that doesn't work out. In which case, I wonder |
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> > what "by some other ways" you would think of... |
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> Dropping some keywords to unstable on minor arches. |
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If we grow (like you said below), then doing less seems like a decision |
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that we shouldn't take; it is rather about "doing it different" to use |
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our resources in a better way. Crowd sourcing users is an option here... |
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> And about recruiting, it is the only way we can keep moving with |
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> getting distro, which makes bigger and bigger all the time. |
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Yes, but apart from recruiting you can make the resources used better; |
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if the current way of using our resources isn't sufficient, we can |
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improve that as well. Improving both is going to make the difference. |
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> I would have joined recruiters unless i knew how difficult job they |
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> are doing. |
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Yes, I am interested in both mentoring and recruiting and I need to |
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contact them again; but I do not really intend to point at "recruiters" |
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here or how hard that is, what I intend to point at with recruiting is |
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finding those users that are willing to learn to write better ebuilds |
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and are willing to become a Gentoo Developer. They are hard to find; |
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and in order for them to be found, a mentor has to find them somewhere. |
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Came across three types of people already trying to find a mentee: |
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1. The first one doesn't want to go through the amount of time it takes; |
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this depends a bit on the queue, but it can take months. |
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2. The second one's interest to become a Gentoo Developer depends from |
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time to time; so, tries to start over and over to become one. |
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3. The third one writes a lot of ebuilds (and has an overlay that |
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looks like a gold mine), but there is a language barrier that keeps |
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the user from contributing; so, we take things slowly instead... |
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4. The fourth one leaves a message on IRC and quits before you return. |
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5. ... |
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So, recruiting in the terms of "finding recruits" appears to be hard. |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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Gentoo Developer |
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E-mail address : TomWij@g.o |
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