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On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 17:25 +0000, Duncan wrote: |
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> Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o> posted |
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> 20090506083356.4a561ea2@g.o, excerpted below, on Wed, 06 May 2009 |
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> 08:33:56 +0200: |
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> > Apart from growing into your job (that's what happened with me), |
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> > recruiters do quite long IRC sessions with the applicant. Apart from |
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> > questions not found in the quiz they want people to elaborate on answers |
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> > they made. |
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> As others have occasionally noted, the assumption seems to be that |
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> developers "do" IRC. While it's certainly a useful thing for those that |
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> do it, I believe I've seen a few developers speak up from time to time |
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> that say they do little if any IRC at all, doing their Gentoo comms via |
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> email (including the lists), bugs, and of course commits. Does the way |
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> remain open for such recruits? This subthread would suggest not, that |
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> IRC is now considered not just convenient or useful, but mandatory. I'd |
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> call that a shame, as it could well block otherwise productive potential |
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> devs. |
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Are you suggesting that recruiters should do long e-mail exchanges with |
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the applicants instead, having no real time conversations, leading to no |
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idea about the applicants real knowledge (when there is not much time to |
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do research after a question is posed), attitude and so on? |
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Mart Raudsepp |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: leio@g.o |
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Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio |
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