Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

[Damien Levac]

I completely agree, myself, I want to become a developer, but since the
information looks so scattered, I decided to wait until summer to have
all the required time to find/read all relevant documentation and
foillow up with the recruitment process (which seems to be somehow
'non-trivial').

As an aside, which may or may not reflect the view of other potential
candidates, even though I use git for my personal projects, having to
learn CVS would not be an issue if I'm already willing to learn
everything else. (However, if there is no guarantee that this will be
useful, why is it a requirement in the first place?)

Damien

On 12/16/12 11:57, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> Inspired by the number of packages being unmaintained -- why not use
> some of that bug bounty money to fix up the recruitment documentation
> and maybe give the webpage a makeover? Marketing is a big part of the
> problem.
>
>   1. Even MediaWiki (wiki.gentoo.org) looks better than www.gentoo.org.
>      That's impressive-bad.
>
>      People still think of Gentoo as a ricer distro that's broken all
>      the time, when in reality, it's one of the most stable. No one
>      would suspect that anything has changed, though, since the
>      homepage hasn't since before I could drink beer.
>
>      It makes the entire distro look unmaintained.
>
>   2. Nowhere is it actually spelled out how to become a developer.
>      Let's google "how to become a gentoo developer." This takes me
>      to...
>
>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1&chap=2
>      which as far as I know, is complete bullshit. I should look for an
>      opening in the monthly newsletter? Really? Or in #gentoo-bugs?
>
>   3. Get off CVS for Christ's sake. Nobody wants to work with that. I
>      don't know how this fits into my bullet list, but it's important.
>
> All three of those problems are boring and will suck to fix -- perfect
> candidates for bug bounties.
>
>