Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Training points for users interested in helping out with ebuild development

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Tue, 05 May 2009 19:19:00 +0100

Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o> wrote:

> - From your post, it appears that standards were lowered during the
> recruitment drive you reference.


Not quite.



At the time, there weren't really any particular standards during

recruitment. The system relied upon recruitment mostly being done or

supervised by a smaller group of people who did it a lot and were

fairly good judges of suitability. The system broke when someone who

didn't do much recruiting pulled in a bunch of new people for obscure

side projects that sounded cool without verifying that some of those

people, say, knew what 'grep' was.



The ebuild-related quiz questions come from my attempt at the time to

reduce the damage until a proper solution could be implemented, which

never happened because devrel decided to make other things a priority.

And even then, the quiz rapidly became unsuccessful because recruiters

would give people lots of attempts and lots of help to answer the

questions, and would let people retake the quiz as many times as they

liked -- the questions were designed to be instantly answerable, not

research questions.



At the very least, before attempting any mass recruitment, the quiz

needs to be lengthened, brought up to date and split into "answer these

on the spot on IRC without having seen the question before" and

"research allowed" questions, and recruiters have to be prepared to

fail most applicants.



- -- 

Ciaran McCreesh

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