Valentin Villenave <[email protected]> writes: > On 5/28/20, Aaron Hill <[email protected]> wrote: >> In some ways, this is akin to a job interview > > Gosh, I really hope it isn’t!! My apologies if you’ve been seeing it that > way. > >> It is counter-productive for me to use my >> time and talents to fill a role that does not need filling. > > That’s hardly been the way our community works; the only era were > there were “roles” was nearly a decade ago when Graham tried to put > together a bug triaging team and a doc editing team -- since then, > we’ve happily gone from the cathedral to the bazaar again.
That is a rather positive spin on "since then, organisational efforts have fallen apart with many areas no longer getting the necessary attention". It's always been a voluntary effort for everyone involved and people chose what they wanted to do rather than get assigned to it. I did not see it as a bad thing that Graham maintained a list of efforts that wanted to be doing, but it's not like anybody was forced to do anything. I think it rather saved people efforts finding and identifying their place rather than otherwise. And it did not involve job interviews and role assignments either: he defined roles, but people picked their choice from there. > I wouldn’t think of it as a “role to fill” so much as a “this may give > you additional ways to lend a hand whenever and however you feel like > it”. That’s all: no formalized “role”, no expectations to fulfill and > --dear God-- no job interview. (And that’s certainly the way I’m > contributing myself these days, in between discouragement phases.) > > I have no doubt your knowledgeability and helpfulness will always be > much appreciated no matter the venue (-user list, -devel, bugtracker, > code reviewing, doc editing or merge requests) and, personally > speaking, the more we see of you the better. But of course, that’s > entirely up to you and may vary from time to time depending on your > free time and motivation; these are, after all, the only two > ingredients Free Software is made of. -- David Kastrup
