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On 16 December 2012 16:57, Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Inspired by the number of packages being unmaintained -- why not use |
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> some of that bug bounty money to fix up the recruitment documentation |
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Recruitment documentatiob? What does that mean? |
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> People still think of Gentoo as a ricer distro that's broken all |
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> the time, when in reality, it's one of the most stable. |
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Well that's not entirely true but that's a different issue |
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> would suspect that anything has changed, though, since the |
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> homepage hasn't since before I could drink beer. |
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> It makes the entire distro look unmaintained. |
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Note quite. The activity of a distro is measure but the # of devs, |
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packages in tree, activity on bugzilla and mailing lists etc. The |
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design of a website does not |
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really say much. Many foss projects still have static html pages. This |
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does not mean they are dead. |
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The pr@ team recently did a survey for the website etc. You may want |
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to ask them what happened and what's their plan. |
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> 2. Nowhere is it actually spelled out how to become a developer. |
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> Let's google "how to become a gentoo developer." This takes me |
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> to... |
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>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1&chap=2 |
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> which as far as I know, is complete bullshit. I should look for an |
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> opening in the monthly newsletter? Really? Or in #gentoo-bugs? |
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Parts of this docs are outdated but this does not matter. Get |
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involved, fix bugs, help people and someone will ask you to join. Or |
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look for a mentor. |
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> 3. Get off CVS for Christ's sake. Nobody wants to work with that. I |
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> don't know how this fits into my bullet list, but it's important. |
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I believe this is Irrelevant |
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> All three of those problems are boring and will suck to fix -- perfect |
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> candidates for bug bounties. |
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I don't like the attitude "pay in order to happen". This is a foss |
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project, so people are supposed to |
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see this as a hobby or a learning experience. It is not a job ;) |
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Things are supposed to happen because they are fun |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 |
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