Re: [gentoo-project] Question for 2020 council candidates: Dev recruitment status

[Michał Górny]

On Sun, 2020-06-28 at 14:43 +0300, Joonas Niilola wrote:
> This is the yearly repeating question: How do you view the current
> recruitment status in Gentoo?

I know I'm not being asked but I'd like to leave a short note
to the context.

> In your opinion...
>  - are we getting enough new devs on board?
>  - does the current recruitment system work?
>  - can the current devbase handle "everything" (we have a lot of
> low-manned projects)? If not, how could council aid in?
>  - why do we have hundreds of contributors who'll never become devs? (is
> there a problem in "marketing", or is the recruitment process too hard,
> or something else?)
>  - should council stay away from this topic, and leave every decision to
> recruiters?

I would suggest we leave Council out of recruitment problem, and let
the Triumvirate deal with it.

> (If I remember correctly, recruiters project were dropped to
> 1 person because they had internal issues deciding how to handle future
> recruitment).

For the future, please don't spread rumors like that without confirming
them first.  Some people may assume this to be true and never look into
the next mail correcting this.

>  - 2020 we've had 0, and publically 1 candidate can be found.

Please remember that in middle of covid-19 people have higher priorities
than looking into joining open source projects.  In other words, 'it's
not just us'.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny