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Comment on What happened to all the mentors? by sporkbox

sporkbox — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 07:26:25 +0000

Perhaps if the process to become a developer wasn’t so arduous and bureaucratic it wouldn’t require as much manpower. I’m an avid Gentoo user, but when I looked over the process that was required to become a developer, I was demotivated. A lot of it strikes me as red tape that you’d see in a company, not a community. I like the test idea, and I like the mentoring idea. Even the probationary period sounds good. The rest? Can it.

Comment on What happened to all the mentors? by Theo Chatzimichos

Theo Chatzimichos — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:05:09 +0000

How about creating a page with a list of mentors that people can contact?

Comment on An easy way to assist us by Get Involved in Gentoo Linux « dastergon's weblog

Get Involved in Gentoo Linux « dastergon's weblog — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:08:37 +0000

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Comment on Gentoo Recruitment: How do we perform? by Proxy Maintainers – How do we perform? : Yet another open source blog ;-)

Proxy Maintainers – How do we perform? : Yet another open source blog ;-) — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:10:13 +0000

[...] my recent recruitment performance post, here comes the second part of my Gentoo Miniconf 2012 presentation. The following two graphs aim [...]

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Gentoo Recruitment: How do we perform? : Yet another open source blog ;-) — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:09:57 +0000

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Comment on Proxy Maintainers – How do we perform? by aCOSwt

aCOSwt — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:37:21 +0000

In my opinion, the proxy-maintainer project is one of the two best initiatives Gentoo, as an organization, has taken since… it became an organization!
The other one being… sunrise !

The best initiatives an organization can take are those which actually make things move forward. Which develops more “enablers” than brakes ! Which open rather than close.

Enablers ! That is indeed what these proxy-maintainers are.

Look :

1/ Six months ago, the official Gentoo dev in charge of some package marked himself “away” for… a week or so…
2/ You know well this package, are able to patch the code, tweak it, you maintain it yourself for… yourself. Yourself ? Yourself only !
3/ OK then ! What about making your work available to all gentooers ?

Hey ! Only Gentoo devs can commit ! And you are not ready to learn and practice all what Gentoo devs must know just in order to make your work available to others ! Because Gentoo’s standards are hight, the cost is far too high and… I’d say… you are correct !

Oh wait ! There are two different jobs in there. The one of maintaining a package and the one of opening this maintenance to everyone !
This is exactly what this proxy-maintainer project figured out ! Do the first job you are competent for, proxy-maintainers will take the other one in charge !

Great idea ! Great initiative ! And… not the least, I can say : IT JUST WORKS !
So… Do try it !

A big THANK YOU to all the project members and, in particular, to its leader Markos.

Eric

Comment on Gentoo Recruitment: How do we perform? by Markos

Markos — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 13:28:16 +0000

Tell the people who like to mentor you to send me an email and then I can be your mentor :-)