On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 08:09:50AM +0000, Edward Welbourne wrote: > Steve Schilz asked me (24 April 2017 19:10) a pertinent question (heavily > edited): > > I’m not really sure what/where your role is… and I’m curious. > > Perhaps an introduction on the mailing list (say, from Lars Knoll?) > > for people further out in the Qt orbit is in order, or perhaps I > > missed it? > > which prompts me to a suggestion, as much the same is relevant for any > approver or maintainer: perhaps we should tweak our process for > introducing candidates for those stations within the community; ask that > each introduce self in the course of it - possibly *after* we've made > our decision, so we won't be prejudiced by their weird hobbies. ISTR > Lars, when proposing me, just linked to my review history in gerrit; > that probably should suffice for the decision on whether to accept a > candidate - but it might be worth, once the decision is made, as a > matter of course, having the new approver or maintainer introduce self, > or link to web pages that do so. That could be a short summary of > career, hobbies and life, like > > I've been making software less bad for about three decades, starting > in 1982, with several breaks. I've only had limited exposure to Qt > prior to joining the Core and Network team at TQtC a year and a half > ago; and I'm (not so) secretly a closet C programmer still learning > new things in C++. I refactor algebra as a hobby and write about > various topics on a web-site [0] that deserves more of my time than > I've lately found the enthusiasm to spend on it. > > Or it could just be a link to a CV [1], if you have it on-line. > > [0] http://www.chaos.org.uk/~eddy/ > [1] http://www.chaos.org.uk/~eddy/cv/ > (a little out of date, I now notice) > > Doing this might leave more of us with a sense of who each other are, > which seems like a natural thing in a community. > > What do folk think ?
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