On Monday 05 April 2010 21:51:34 Nathan Zachary wrote:
On 05/04/10 11:07, Jon Portnoy wrote:
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 08:50:49AM +0300, Eray Aslan wrote:
Just replying randomly.
On 05.04.2010 04:33, Tobias Heinlein wrote:
I think this is a good starting point to get rid of the some
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:33:52 +0200
Tobias Heinlein keytoas...@gentoo.org wrote:
3) Questions that aren't that important at all and would just be nice
to know.
[snip]
Examples for these:
5. What is wrong with using $(somecommand) or `somecommand` or $ARCH
inside SRC_URI, DEPEND, etc?
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 08:48:08AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:33:52 +0200
Tobias Heinlein keytoas...@gentoo.org wrote:
3) Questions that aren't that important at all and would just be nice
to know.
[snip]
Examples for these:
5. What is wrong with using
On 04/05/2010 05:36 AM, Alistair Bush wrote:
On 4/3/10 3:40 PM, Ben de Groot wrote:
Are there any other ideas on how to improve our recruitment process?
The idea appeared before, but I think it's worth noting.
Either merge the ebuild and end quizzes, or make the split actually
meaningful.
On 04/05/2010 03:48 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:33:52 +0200
Tobias Heinleinkeytoas...@gentoo.org wrote:
3) Questions that aren't that important at all and would just be nice
to know.
[snip]
Examples for these:
5. What is wrong with using $(somecommand) or `somecommand`
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 08:50:49AM +0300, Eray Aslan wrote:
Just replying randomly.
On 05.04.2010 04:33, Tobias Heinlein wrote:
I think this is a good starting point to get rid of the some important
questions are too hard to answer dilemma that can be implemented
relatively fast. On top
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:07:01PM +, Jon Portnoy wrote:
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 08:50:49AM +0300, Eray Aslan wrote:
Just replying randomly.
On 05.04.2010 04:33, Tobias Heinlein wrote:
I think this is a good starting point to get rid of the some important
questions are too hard
On 05/04/2010 17:07, Jon Portnoy wrote:
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 08:50:49AM +0300, Eray Aslan wrote:
Just replying randomly.
On 05.04.2010 04:33, Tobias Heinlein wrote:
I think this is a good starting point to get rid of the some important
questions are too hard to answer dilemma that can be
On 04/05/2010 09:26 PM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
The first option could be somewhat simple, we already have overlays
so those could simply be used. The second option (which would be the
best IMO) is a fair bit harder. The first thing that needs to be done
is find out why people don't
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:50:49PM +0100, George Prowse wrote:
That assumes the system is working perfectly and the whole fact that
we are having this discussion would go against that.
From what i've read in the community, lots of people would have no
problems helping out maintaining
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Jon Portnoy av...@eris.oppresses.us wrote:
Which is all well and good -- the you wrote some ebuilds so here's
your commit privs and @gentoo.org approach to recruitment worked great
when Gentoo had a few dozen developers.
Today QA is a bit more important, and
On 05/04/10 11:07, Jon Portnoy wrote:
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 08:50:49AM +0300, Eray Aslan wrote:
Just replying randomly.
On 05.04.2010 04:33, Tobias Heinlein wrote:
I think this is a good starting point to get rid of the some important
questions are too hard to answer dilemma that
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Nathan Zachary
nathanzach...@gentoo.org wrote:
[...] but it
would be much more enlightening to me to work on creating ebuilds while
working one-on-one with a mentor.
The whole purpose of the training period between the ebuild quiz and
the end quiz (see [1]) is
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On 05-04-2010 18:26, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:07:01PM +, Jon Portnoy wrote:
There should be a process of weeding out developers that bitch and/or whine,
but if most of the teams are understaffed then there has to
On 04/04/2010 12:48 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
On 04/03/10 21:00, Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek) wrote:
Maybe if we could find the way to make the knowledge found in
quizzes be more exciting to new devs, then we could still have a
strong recruitment process without the burden of completing the
Sebastian Pipping wrote:
On 04/03/10 21:00, Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek) wrote:
Maybe if we could find the way to make the knowledge found in
quizzes be more exciting to new devs, then we could still have a
strong recruitment process without the burden of completing the
quizzes. So, what I
On 4 April 2010 11:43, Petteri Räty betelge...@gentoo.org wrote:
Mentors can already suggest their students to do them in reverse order.
As always patches to separate technical and organizational stuff to
their own quizzes are accepted. My time on recruiting is quite maxed out
already. Doing
On 4/3/10 3:40 PM, Ben de Groot wrote:
Are there any other ideas on how to improve our recruitment process?
The idea appeared before, but I think it's worth noting.
Either merge the ebuild and end quizzes, or make the split actually
meaningful. In my case I just finished both at the same
Just replying randomly.
On 05.04.2010 04:33, Tobias Heinlein wrote:
I think this is a good starting point to get rid of the some important
questions are too hard to answer dilemma that can be implemented
relatively fast. On top of that I like Sebastian's idea to order the
quizzes by
On 4/3/10 3:40 PM, Ben de Groot wrote:
Are there any other ideas on how to improve our recruitment process?
The idea appeared before, but I think it's worth noting.
Either merge the ebuild and end quizzes, or make the split actually
meaningful. In my case I just finished both at the same time,
On 03/04/2010 14:40, Ben de Groot wrote:
On 3 April 2010 13:33, Richard Freemanri...@gentoo.org wrote:
I really think that the Gentoo recruitment process needs improvement. Right
now it seems like a LOT of effort is required both to become a Gentoo dev
and to help somebody become a Gentoo dev.
On 04/03/2010 04:40 PM, Ben de Groot wrote:
Another problem I see is that our documentation seems to be scattered
all over the place. I propose that we make at least one portal page
for (prospective) developers that will link them to all the resources
they might need. It also means our
On 04/03/2010 04:53 PM, George Prowse wrote:
Armed with a list of where developers are spread too thinly, a
willingness to answer questions (no matter how stupid you believe them
to be) and some prior organisation then i see no reason why Gentoo
wouldn't get an immediate influx of at least
On 03/04/2010 15:05, Petteri Räty wrote:
On 04/03/2010 04:53 PM, George Prowse wrote:
Armed with a list of where developers are spread too thinly, a
willingness to answer questions (no matter how stupid you believe them
to be) and some prior organisation then i see no reason why Gentoo
Hi guys,
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote:
On 3 April 2010 13:33, Richard Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
I really think that the Gentoo recruitment process needs improvement. Right
now it seems like a LOT of effort is required both to become a Gentoo dev
On 04/03/10 16:05, Petteri Räty wrote:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/staffing-needs/
I don't know if developers know that this page is autogenerated from
individual project pages these days so it's easy for any developer to
get stuff there.
Has anyone every tried to read that page?
On 04/03/10 21:00, Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek) wrote:
Maybe if we could find the way to make the knowledge found in
quizzes be more exciting to new devs, then we could still have a
strong recruitment process without the burden of completing the
quizzes. So, what I propose is to transform the
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