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Jim Northrup wrote: |
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> 1) There is nowhere specified on gentoo.org or gentoo maintained sites |
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> I've rtfm'd specifying any hint of conduct guidelines for being a |
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> developer interfacing with the outside world, representing the |
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> organization. Common social ettiquette does not always reside with |
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> skilled techies... |
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Since you have given zero context, I'm really not sure what you are writing |
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about. Are you saying that you are interested in becoming a developer with the |
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task of interfacing between the development community and the user base..? |
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> 2) There are gentoo.org references to #gentoo-dev, but the process of |
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> interfacing, mentoring, and recruiting are self-referential beginning |
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> with a bootstrap of being on the good side of an existing developer. So |
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> for those of us who do not establish favorable dialogues by filing a |
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> bug, the door starts out closed. |
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Thats pretty much correct - the entire development community revolves heavily |
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around bugzilla. We use it for much more than bugs - we use it for requests, |
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suggestions, things that just aren't quite right, improvements, software |
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submissions, documentation submissions, and many other things that aren't |
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actually "bugs". So pretty much any contribution anyone can make can or will |
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go through bugzilla. Yes, we really really need bugzilla documentation. |
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Secondary to bugzilla there is IRC and mailing lists. It's a lot harder to get |
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recognised here though. According to my mail client, I've read some of your |
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previous posts, but your name doesn't sound familiar at all. Names are much |
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more memorable when you take a patch from bugzilla and have to physically |
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write the contributors name into the package ChangeLog in return for their effort. |
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But sometimes getting a wake-up call can be very useful. User feedback distant |
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from the development community can be very useful. I tend to file bugs based |
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on this kind of feedback. Take one I handled today, which I've seen a few |
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times. The installation handbook contained this sentence for 5 months: |
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"As shown in the above listing, the current profile contains a 2.4 |
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subdirectory. This means that the current profile uses the 2.6 kernel." |
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Some users find it hard to convince themselves that this might possibly *not* |
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be a typo. And you can't blame them, once you take a step back from the |
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understanding that Gentoo profiles are cascaded. |
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Anyway, I'd appreciate it if you could write to Gentoo user relations with |
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your experiences, what information you are lacking, and where you would expect |
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to find it. |
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Daniel |
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