Re: [gentoo-project] Feedback on recruitment process

[Theo Chatzimichos]

On Saturday 17 of November 2012 10:53:09 Markos Chandras wrote:
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> Good morning,
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> Most of you have probably noticed that the recruitment.gentoo.org
> webapp is gone[1]. We(recruiters) are in the process of reworking and
> re-evaluating the recruitment process. Right now, I am asking you to
> comment on the quizzes. Tell us if you think that some of the
> questions are obsolete, or too , or outdated etc. Moreover, if you
> have a new question in mind that you would like to see in the quizzes
> please let me know. Your feedback is valuable for us in order to come
> up with a more up2date process that would satisfy the upcoming
> developers, you as mentors and us as recruiters. I would like to ask
> you to refrain from the usual "oh git will solve everything"
> discussions that will drive this thread out of topic. At this point
> I'd like only developers to comment on this as some of them have been
> mentors and certainly all of them have done the quizzes. Users, former
> developers etc are welcome to join but at this point we need to gather
> feedback from people who have actually gone through this process.
> For your convenience, I've merged both quizzes on a Google doc[2].
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> [1]http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel.announce/1783
> [2]https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pqq0ROBc7yggLRsYUKhReYQL68k1XYFZlvfqI
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Hello,

the non-technical questions should be formed better, and probably to have 
subquestions. For example, for the council question, I have been given answers 
from "council is 7 people that take all decisions" to really lengthy ones that 
lose the point. So I believe that it should be reformed in 4-5 questions: what 
it is, how it performs, what kind of decisions it takes, how it stays alive, 
how does it do the elections, who is legible to nominate/participate.
Regarding the technical ones, there is too much duplication as Tomas pointed 
out already, especially regarding KEYWORDS so please do something because the 
answers are pretty much the same in some of them (or even identical in 2-3 of 
them)
And thanks for the google doc.

Theo