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On 08/02/2013 01:16 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: |
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>> And if you cba to review the basics, stuff most users know, or can find out easily, |
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>> what makes you think you're cut out to be a developer? |
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>> Please note I'm not discussing any technical ability you may or may not have with |
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>> bash, ebuilds or upstream sources. Just your ability to find out the basics, which |
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>> is much less difficult than installing Gentoo in the first place. |
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>> If you want/ed to be a developer, my advice would always be: show you're useful, not |
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>> that you need hand-holding and ego-stroking from the get-go. |
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> I've been an occasionnal contributor to Git, the active maintainer of |
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> OfflineIMAP for more than a year and I'm maintainer and developer at |
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> $DAY_JOB since years. I turned the OfflineIMAP worflow from one |
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> maintainer into a team of official maintainers. This is merely one |
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> example of my contributions to the open source world and when it comes |
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> to recruitement, workflow and decision processes I think I know what I'm |
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> talking about. |
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We mainly care about gentoo contributions when it comes to gentoo |
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recruitment and do not let people in, just because they are developers. |
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That is not even a requirement. |
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So we are pretty open to new contributors. |
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