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Mario Fetka schrieb: |
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> On Monday, 4. May 2009 19:06:12 George Prowse wrote: |
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>> Peter Faraday Weller wrote: |
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>>> Hi.... |
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>>> Thanks, |
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>>> welp |
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>> Sad to hear it mate. |
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>> As the person who did your first install for you (i think) I think you |
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>> will be missed. |
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>> I am quite surprised about what you said about the state of things |
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>> because i've got the distinct impression from others that Gentoo has |
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>> been improving in the past 12 months. |
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>> About the lack of the developers, something I proposed about 3 years ago |
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>> might be applicable: has Gentoo ever thought about doing a "Dev Day" in |
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>> much the same way as the "Bug Days"? Advertise a day where people can |
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>> come and have a chat with developers and get coached because there is a |
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>> vast amount of people and knowledge out there and I never see anything |
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>> about Gentoo wanting people. |
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>> If you book them, they will come. |
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>> G |
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> and I would be the first to come |
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> Mario |
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For those, who can work with IRC and are interested in working with ebuilds, there is already an option: |
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Join #gentoo-dev-help or even better #gentoo-sunrise and read the documentation from the topic. The |
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Sunrise Overlay (with the #gentoo-sunrise IRC channel) is open for everyone willing to learn and |
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contribute to it. Even normal users can get access, learn how to create ebuilds, how to improve them |
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and how to maintain them. |
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As a starting point, this is a central overlay, where ebuilds are maintained, that dont get a |
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developer as maintainer because of missing manpower. Additionally, all contributors learn the ebuild |
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development work themselves. |
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And if you are willing to learn and do continuously good work, there is a good chance that you may |
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level up to a developer yourself someday. You want an example? This was my way to become a full |
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Gentoo developer. ;-) |
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So at least for ebuild maintainence, there are good starting points (probably other projects also |
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have training grounds like the java or kde herds), the bigger problem may be the communication |
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between potential new developers and the current developer base and our options to become a new |
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developer. |
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Thomas Sachau |
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