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On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 3:31 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." |
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<phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 2/16/11 5:50 PM, Petteri Räty wrote: |
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>> Currently the recruiting team handles returning developers in the |
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>> same way as people joining the first time. The question that I have |
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>> been presented with is if they should get priority? |
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> I think that we should avoid any special treatment for non-technical |
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> reasons. |
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> However, I'd expect that returning developers would have to learn only |
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> about some recent additions to Gentoo like EAPI, PMS, and maybe not even |
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> that. That should make passing the quizzes much faster, with less |
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> round-trips. |
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The round-trips (reviewing the quiz, fixing problems, reviewing again) |
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takes about 5% the time (just a guess from my experience) of the whole |
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recruitment process. It's really unimportant when the person being |
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recruited has waited ~6 months for a recruiter to become available. |
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The issue is whether former developers should be moved to the front of |
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the queue. I say yes, because we know that they'll be able to jump in |
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and start helping quickly, and the number of round-trips, as you say, |
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in the review process will be much fewer so they should only |
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negligibly slow down new developers' recruitment. |
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