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