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Hello, Joonas |
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On 28.06.2020 14:43, Joonas Niilola wrote: |
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> This is the yearly repeating question: How do you view the current |
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> recruitment status in Gentoo? |
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> In your opinion... |
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> - are we getting enough new devs on board? |
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No |
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> - does the current recruitment system work? |
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Clarification needed. Do we define "recruitment" as a period of time |
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between quizzes submission and the final decision, or do we also |
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include mentoring period? |
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The hardest part of the entire process is mentoring. |
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It is really _hard_ to find a mentor. Very little amount of people |
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want to devote their time on teaching, even less do it with |
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great enthusiasm. From my very personal observations |
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the more time a mentee spends with a mentor the less time |
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a recruiter spends to finish the review. |
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> - can the current devbase handle "everything" (we have a lot of |
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> low-manned projects)? If not, how could council aid in? |
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We could do much better, that is for sure. |
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> - why do we have hundreds of contributors who'll never become devs? (is |
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> there a problem in "marketing", or is the recruitment process too hard, |
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> or something else?) |
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Some people consider quizzes difficult, overall, I have already explained |
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before why quizzes are like that. I could only repeat myself, but |
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I guess you know the answer (not sure if I must bring this up to the thread |
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again). Apart from that, proxied contributions are easier |
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to conduct and a proxied person takes much less responsibility. |
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> - should council stay away from this topic, and leave every decision to |
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> recruiters? (If I remember correctly, recruiters project were dropped to |
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> 1 person because they had internal issues deciding how to handle future |
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> recruitment). I'm also asking this because I have a suggestion to renew |
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> recruitment process a bit. Should I post my suggestion to -core for |
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> every dev to see, -project for everyone to see, or contact recruiters |
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> who can silently approve/disapprove/modify my suggestion, without anyone |
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> else knowing what I suggested? |
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The entire story was based on the opinion of a single council member |
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who suddenly decided not to contact recruiters before posting anything |
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to the - core ml. I guess this was explained very well by gokturk. |
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If you are interested in helping out, consider this my reply an invitation |
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to become a recruiter. |
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> [..] |
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> -- juippis |
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