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On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 02:18:21PM -0800, Wendall Cada wrote: |
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> I have been trying to find the time to become a Gentoo dev for a while |
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> now. Stuart was kind enough to offer mentoring me. However, I often feel |
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> overwhelmed by the sheer amount of things I need to know that I won't |
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> ever work with. I really have no need to know about compile issues with |
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> php or apache, other than reporting bugs on them, to be able to support |
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> a few web-apps. I have enough knowledge of several languages to have an |
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> idea of the nature of a certain bug, but am more skilled with high level |
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> scripting languages like perl, php, python, etc. However, I feel that |
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> what I'm getting myself into isn't what I'd like to do at all. I am |
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> fully qualified to maintain any of the current CMS systems in the tree. |
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> I have a working knowledge of the systems, have even personally written |
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> some of the code. However, to become a dev, I'd have to work with |
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> packages I don't even use. Not a very good way to attract developers or |
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> maintainers. |
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I agree that in _this particular instance_ this isn't the best way to attract |
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devs. Still, the dev quiz isn't _that_ hard. You are not expected to know in |
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great detail how autotools works, for example. I think the point is that all |
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devs have a baseline understanding of how the _whole_ thing works, not just |
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their dusty corner of the tree. This ML isn't read by recruiters, however. They |
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(and the council) will have final say, not us. |
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> Just the fact that webapp-config exists should explain my second point. |
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> rant deleted ;) |
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I actually prefer to have w-c separately. For me, dealing with wrobel is much |
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easier than working with carpaski/ferringb/whoever, simply because we can fix |
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and release much more quickly than if we were part of Portage. |
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And then there's the issue of distro independence and plans for world |
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domination, but that should be directed to vhost-tools-dev :) |
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Renat Lumpau |
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all things web-apps |
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