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On Tuesday 05 May 2009 20:37:24 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Mon, 04 May 2009 21:47:08 +0100 |
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> George Prowse <george.prowse@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > If you make it a big and special occasion which is planned correctly |
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> > with a sufficient number of current developers who are willing to |
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> > walk people through how and what it means to be a Gentoo Developer |
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> > then the influx could create a new backbone of new developers who |
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> > will hopefully be here for years to come. |
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> That's not how it works -- we know this from last time Gentoo |
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> recruited a whole load of people without verifying their abilities. With |
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> lots of new developers, what little time skilled developers already have |
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> ends up being spent fixing all the screwups made by people who were only |
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> recruited to make up numbers. Gentoo needs better developers, not more |
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> developers. |
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We surely need more developers. Otherwise we ll end up maintaining 100<x<500 |
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each one. Just look at the numbers ( total packages/total ACTIVE developers |
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). So first we need to attract more people. Evaluation and recruitment comes |
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next |
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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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