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From: Rich Freeman <rich@××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Cc: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Recruitment issues and potential improvement
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 18:14:41
Message-Id: CAGfcS_katZvweoMdghcKtFTP0zOfJFHPWQCg=v3PPF10ewx_5w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Recruitment issues and potential improvement by "Michał Górny"
1 On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 > Dnia 2015-02-06, o godz. 17:17:31
3 > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> napisał(a):
4 >
5 >> On Fri, 06 Feb 2015 13:08:47 +0000
6 >> hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote:
7 >> > "Let's track him for one month and revert any major breakage quickly"
8 >> > is our answer to what the rest of the world does: review.
9 >>
10 >> Then perhaps this topic should be put on hold until Gentoo has Git,
11 >> automated building and a review tool online.
12 >
13 > Sounds like a chicken/egg problem.
14 >
15
16 How does instituting a review process depend on not recruiting new
17 developers? A chicken/egg problem is one with circular dependencies.
18 You can work out a review-based process without touching the current
19 developer recruitment process. It makes far more sense to validate
20 the new process BEFORE touching the old one.
21
22 I'm not saying that we can't improve on the current recruitment
23 process. I just don't think we should just say "who needs new
24 developers anyway - if we didn't have enough developers somebody would
25 finally get around to creating a review process."
26
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28 Rich