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On 01/04/2017 09:46 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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> On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 18:58:26 +0100 Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: |
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>> Endnotes: |
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>> [A] Possibly with an opt-out by application to council, in case there |
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>> are certain regions where this is considered non-feasable etc. |
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> This will be next to impossible for many candidates. What about |
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> people who don't have Gentoo devs nearby? They have to flight |
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> (probably to some event) to meet them. What if this is too |
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> expensive for them, or they can't leave their country due to |
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> various reasons, or they just don't have time slot to visit |
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> particular event? |
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This would be Note A, to allow for consideration on a per-case basis |
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> Frankly, with such requirement I could not have become developer |
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> myself back then in 2014. |
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> And what about anonymous developers? We do have them and in modern |
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> world people may have good reasons to stay anonymous. Just reminds |
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> me about US braindead law allowing company to own all code written |
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> by dev, while he/she is employed, even when that code was written |
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> using during off-duty hours or vacation days. |
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Anonymous developers cause issues in other aspects as well, including |
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copyright considerations. I'm not convinced it is necessarily a good |
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thing to support it to a great extent. |
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> Best regards, |
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> Andrew Savchenko |
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Kristian Fiskerstrand |
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