Sorry you had a bad experience.  Please do not let the words and actions of 
one developer reflect on the hundreds of others.

On Wednesday 08 June 2005 04:23 pm, Jim Northrup wrote:
<snip>
> 1)  There is nowhere specified on gentoo.org or gentoo maintained sites
> I've rtfm'd specifying any hint of conduct guidelines for being a
> developer interfacing with the outside world, representing the
> organization.  Common social ettiquette does not always reside with
> skilled techies...

We specifically talk about irc in the etiquette policy:

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3&chap=2

> 2)  There are gentoo.org references to #gentoo-dev, but the process of
> interfacing, mentoring, and recruiting are self-referential beginning
> with a bootstrap of being on the good side of an existing developer.  So
> for those of us who do not establish favorable dialogues by filing a
> bug, the door starts out closed.

It's a good idea to have everything bugged just for the sake of getting things 
accomplished.  IRC is nice, and a lot of collaboration goes on there, but a 
lot of things fall through the cracks.  If there seems to be a lot of push to 
interface through bugzilla, the reasons are to be able to track stuff and get 
it done.  I hate bugzilla as much as the next guy, but I think it helps to 
prevent a lot of frustration from requests getting lost.

Cheers,

-Corey

-- 
Corey Shields
Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team and Devrel Team
Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees
http://www.gentoo.org/~cshields

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