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Am Mittwoch, 5. August 2015, 23:27:56 schrieb James Le Cuirot: |
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> I don't have any obvious answer besides the suggestion of one infamous |
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> former developer that the recruiters should be more proactive in their |
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> approach instead of just waiting for people to show up at the door. |
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> That worked in the past but Gentoo isn't so popular now. |
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Well I certainly agree with him that more overlay contributors is the wrong |
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way to go. It just leads to the burn-out of those reviewing and proxying it to |
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the main tree. |
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(I see about 5 additional voiced people in #gentoo-java. How are the quizzes |
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progressing? Are you pushing them hard? :) |
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> If we can't satisfy these users then this will reflect badly on Gentoo |
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> as a whole at a time when we really can't take our user base for |
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> granted. I honestly fear for the future. |
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Sure. We had the same for Perl some time ago; the team was empty for a while. |
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Gentoo survived, but caster, zlogene, monsieurp and me are still catching up |
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in dev-perl. At least the Perl interpreter itself is now upstream current. |
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Sorry I can't be there on sunday (in the air somewhere over the US)... |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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http://www.akhuettel.de/ |
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