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On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 8:15 AM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. <phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote: |
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> By the way, now with git, why don't we change from quizzes to just |
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> "submitted X high-quality PRs and got support from Z existing committers"? |
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The quizzes cover a lot of organizational information that have |
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nothing to do with writing ebuilds, like the very first one: "When is |
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it appropriate to post to the following mailing lists: gentoo-core, |
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gentoo-dev, gentoo-dev-announce, gentoo-project? Provide examples of |
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topics that are appropriate for each one of them." |
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Additionally the quiz covers a pretty broad variety of topics that |
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just a few pull requests might not hit. Gentoo also doesn't use CI |
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and tinderboxing/etc so it is important to make sure devs are aware |
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that they need to run repoman on all commits/etc. |
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The quiz interaction is also intended to help the mentor get to know |
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the applicant, and later for the recruiters to do the same. There are |
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certainly other ways of doing that, but I suspect they'd involve a |
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similar amount of back and forth since the only way to get to know |
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somebody is to interact with them. |
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Rich |
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