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On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 15:24:23 -0800 |
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Patrick McLean <chutzpah@g.o> wrote: |
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> This is an all volunteer organization, we should refrain from making |
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> any sort of regular "mandatory" actions. Since no one is paid, we can't |
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> have any specific expectations of when people have time to spend on |
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> Gentoo. I would also have someone with limited time spending their time |
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> working on bugs etc rather than writing a monthly report. |
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Gentoo does have some mandatory expectations of developers. |
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But these seem to frequently serve as a barrier to development, and such |
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mandatory controls are typically employed as gate-keepers. |
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I would rather have only as many of these as is absolutely necessary. |
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> Even at companies, where people are paid to work, engineers are not |
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> generally expected to provide status reports to management. That is |
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> generally the job of a _paid_ project manager or _paid_ manager. |
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I wish that was true, but like, that's an expectation of a *good* company |
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that is well run. |
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But my observation is too few companies meet any definition of "good". |
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