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Three developers were recently requested from recruiters for an official |
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Gentoo on XBox effort that would be more Gentoo-oriented than the |
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current GentooX effort (http://gentoox.shallax.com). (Two of them have |
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no visible prior contributions.) |
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I'm looking for comments on what, exactly, constitutes a platform worth |
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recruiting developers for. I like to be extremely careful when selecting |
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new developers both to keep the bar set high for developer status and |
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for security reasons (every new account is a potential attack vector, |
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especially when you consider that a developer's box could be compromised |
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and used to get in), so I'm very inclined to reject requests for new |
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developers who will only be working on a very small niche like XBox |
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support (especially when it's really just embedded x86 and it seems |
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like there wouldn't be too much maintainance work involved). I would |
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also be inclined to reject developers for, say, m68k. |
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What do you guys think? |
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(Also, can someone detail for me what, precisely, would need to go into |
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the tree for XBox support?) |
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