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On Tuesday 05 May 2009 23:45:14 AllenJB wrote: |
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> George Prowse wrote: |
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> > Peter Faraday Weller wrote: |
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> >> Hi.... |
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> >> |
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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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> > If you book them, they will come. |
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> > G |
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> In my opinion, such a drive wouldn't work. |
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>[..] |
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> As always, I realize this would take time to change, but I (again) think |
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> there's a good chance that it would improve contributions (on the basis |
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> that potential contributors are more likely to actually contribute if |
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> they can find what they want to work on easily). |
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> AllenJB |
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I am sure there are some developers which can offer a great amount of time to |
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help/revibe slacking or dead projects ( e.g. userrel, newsletters etc ). The |
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thing is that leadership on several projects is inactive hence users or devs |
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who are willing to help are getting demotivated. It would be really nice each |
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individual project to perform a clean up like: |
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1) have an internal discussion about its goals and future |
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2) Remove dead members and elect a new leader if necessary |
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3) Update the page |
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4) Publish its status |
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5) Assist for help is necessary |
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Looking 'active' is very important to attract new people to project. |
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Is this so hard? |
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-- |
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Markos Chandras (hwoarang) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer [KDE/Qt/Sound/Sunrise] |
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Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org |
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