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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Mon, 04 May 2009 21:47:08 +0100 |
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> George Prowse <george.prowse@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> If you make it a big and special occasion which is planned correctly |
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>> with a sufficient number of current developers who are willing to |
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>> walk people through how and what it means to be a Gentoo Developer |
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>> then the influx could create a new backbone of new developers who |
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>> will hopefully be here for years to come. |
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> That's not how it works -- we know this from last time Gentoo |
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> recruited a whole load of people without verifying their abilities. With |
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> lots of new developers, what little time skilled developers already have |
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> ends up being spent fixing all the screwups made by people who were only |
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> recruited to make up numbers. Gentoo needs better developers, not more |
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> developers. |
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> |
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And where did i say their abilities wouldn't be verified? Come on now, |
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you'll have to do better than that. |
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In terms of figures a conservative estimate would be 25% wouldn't have |
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the necessary skills and another 25% would be unsuitable. |
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