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On Tuesday 20 July 2004 13:36, Dylan Carlson wrote: |
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> To a limited extent. |
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The outside world probably doesn't see / know / understand those limits. And |
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I'm not sure every developer has the same viewpoint on what those limits are |
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either. |
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> These days, moreso than the past |
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> 7-8 years I've been involved in the open source "stuff", I've seen more |
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> people trying to justify their existence by debating countless minutiae on |
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> public mailing lists. |
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Do you think this is a problem that Gentoo is suffering from? |
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> Ultimately it doesn't matter who mentors who as long as it |
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> gets done appropriately. |
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Obviously it did matter to somebody at the time, otherwise a change in mentor |
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wouldn't have happened. Also, what does it say about confidence in the dev |
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who is no longer to be the mentor? You say it doesn't matter, but it does |
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have an impact on how people feel. |
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Also, from my perspective, this matters going forward. It makes sense to me |
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that devs who are working on web-based apps are mentored by someone from the |
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existing herd - or at least that we know they are coming. To help with this, |
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if I put together a webapp-specific set of questions, could they be |
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incorporated into the quiz? |
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I do have a concern that sometimes we try too hard to convert users into devs |
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when they're not ready, and on the one occaison where I was involved, my |
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concerns were dismissed. |
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I don't know how other herds feel about this. |
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> Devrel is the group that makes those decisions. |
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From the previous emails, I'm reading it that |
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a) It's not clear when/if devrel took on the role of making those decisions |
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(isn't that what recruiters is for?) |
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b) It's not clear that devrel *is* the group that makes those decisions |
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I'm not debating that someone probably has to make those decisions. |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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