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On 08/18/17 15:17, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> Looks like a couple new devs came in unannounced under the radar. |
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> Pretty sure there was no announcement for the following |
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> AngeloGioacchino Del Regno (kholk) 2017-05-31 |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616280#c5 |
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> Craig Andrews (candrews) 2017-08-16 |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620766#c3 |
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> The 2nd is some what good news as they are the person ignored on PR1721 |
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> https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/1721 |
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> While Java does need all the help it can get. I am a bit surprised at |
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> someone becoming a developer with little to no contributions. I can |
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> only find the one contribution, the PR above. I hope I am wrong and |
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> they have contributed more. |
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> Not sure what it says to others who want to become developers but must |
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> prove themselves first with contributions. This has nothing to do with |
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> me. I know the path to become a developer has not been easy for many. |
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> That is good to see the process improve, and be faster. Still I would |
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> think contributions to be part of that process. |
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> To me some what seems a move out of desperation to bring on someone |
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> pretty green who has contributed very little. Just because an area, |
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> Java, is heavily neglected. I hope I am wrong!!! |
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> Java is not really a trivial area for people just to jump in. I welcome |
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> any existing developers go update a Java ebuild or two. Form an opinion |
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> for yourself. |
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You are very wrong and need to do much more research. Craig has done |
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much work on kodi and other projects and deserves the opportunity to |
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continue to prove himself as a developer. |
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