[board-discuss] Hiring Targeted Developers ... feedback.

2022-05-26 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi everyone, Thanks for all the contributions here. Let me try to summarize things and look for the common ground here: * TDF hiring one (or two) developers This is a common factor - apparently, as was expressed at the beginning of this thread - this is not that controversial.

Re: [board-discuss] Hiring Targeted Developers ...

2022-05-23 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi Ilmari, all, Ilmari Lauhakangas wrote: > I'm thinking of what will be written in the job posting. If the > title contains "mentor" and mentoring will be central in the job > description, it will scare devs away. > Yeah, I agree that past job postings were perhaps over-specific there. The

Re: [board-discuss] Hiring Targeted Developers ...

2022-05-23 Thread Ilmari Lauhakangas
On 23.5.2022 20.42, Jan Holesovsky wrote: Ilmari Lauhakangas píše v Po 23. 05. 2022 v 20:08 +0300: * Hire a Targeted Developer, with primary focus on mentoring If mentoring is put in the center, it seriously limits the pool of applicants. Most devs who could apply will simply skip it. We know

Re: [board-discuss] Hiring Targeted Developers ...

2022-05-23 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi Ilmari, Ilmari Lauhakangas píše v Po 23. 05. 2022 v 20:08 +0300: > > * Hire a Targeted Developer, with primary focus on mentoring > > If mentoring is put in the center, it seriously limits the pool of > applicants. Most devs who could apply will simply skip it. We know > this > from the

Re: [board-discuss] Hiring Targeted Developers ...

2022-05-23 Thread Ilmari Lauhakangas
On 23.5.2022 19.36, Michael Meeks wrote: * So I propose: * Hire a Targeted Developer, with primary focus on mentoring If mentoring is put in the center, it seriously limits the pool of applicants. Most devs who could apply will simply skip it. We know this from the experience in 2017-2021

[board-discuss] Hiring Targeted Developers ...

2022-05-23 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi everyone, Let me try to provide a simpler proposal that combines several ideas from the thread and focuses on clarifying the management aspect. Hopefully as an E-mail it is easier to interact with the content. * Rationale A selection of points from Paolo's discussion on the