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On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 2:50 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Raymond Jennings <shentino@×××××.com> |
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> wrote: |
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> > |
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> > That said, how do we make sure that new developers don't get screwed out |
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> of |
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> > devship by politics? Can we make sure that someone isn't going to |
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> refuse a |
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> > GPG endorsement based on, say..."I know who you are and I believe you are |
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> > who you say you are, but I don't like you/think you stink as a |
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> > developer/whatever else so I'm not going to endorse you anyway"? |
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> Well, if they only need two signatures and they can come from anybody, |
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> then you'd need to tick off an AWFUL lot of people for this to become |
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> a problem. If you actually managed to do that, somehow I suspect the |
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> recruiters are going to give you a hard time. |
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> Rich |
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> Are we assuming that GPG signatures can only be obtained from developers |
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that know you personally? |
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Gentoo is a globally active distro with contributors from across the world. |
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Getting a face to face meeting with another developer is hard enough as it |
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is. |
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Add to this that we're socially inept geeks and probably don't have many |
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connections anyway, and you have the logical conclusion that a prospective |
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dev is NOT going to have an easy time actually getting endorsements. |
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Who can give you an endorsement anyway? |
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Answer this, and then you'll know whether or not the pool of potential |
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endorsers is going to be too small for it to become anything but a needless |
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bottleneck to becoming a developer. |
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