Hello Eray, Monday, November 13, 2000, 7:56:50 AM, you wrote: EO> Instead of the rant, you might try to put together an actually EO> useful idea from this weird suggestion. Of course getting people EO> to test each other's skills such as coding or documentation EO> is beyond the scope of Debian project. Granted that, a useful EO> idea could be some sort of automated volunteer tracking system. EO> Something that wouldn't be discriminating and would be more EO> socially plausible. You know, friendship, co-operation, etc. EO> Without assuming too much :)
EO> I think you could do such a thing without really rating people EO> about their perl wisdom or kernel hacking experience. A simple EO> system to match volunteers to tasks. Kind of like WNPP extended EO> a bit. The idea is about specifying certain skills. Each developer EO> gives his estimate of how useful he could be in that area, or EO> how much he'd like to work in that area. Then of course there's EO> the collection of tasks to be done. Like the GNU task list. Once again Eray saves the day. (This is not meant to be an irony) Due to my poor English I (obviously) was not able to present my idea the right way. As I can see from your comments, you dislike the idea of someone rating developers except for them rating themselves. When brainstorming and sending the first mail I was not sure if giving developers right to rate themselves would be The Right Thing [TM]. After some thinking I understood that at the moment this is the best solution. Making scripts, that would update this data automatically would require a some kind of AI. Making tests for developers would require hell of a lot time, knowledge and nerves. Even making guidelines of what a developer should know for each level of each skill, so developers would have some idea of what they already know and what else can they learn. Anyway. Here is what I'll do. - I will develop a plan for this idea while keeping in mind every suggestion and recommendation I have received and will receive from you - Later this month I'll make a test page for this on people.debian.org. - When I will consider this page to go beta, I'll announce this to debian-devel, so everyone can see, what does it look like - And then AFTER all suggestions (bugs) will be fixed in test version I'll consider 'releasing' this to mainstream by proposing appropriate GR. Is this ok? Feel free to cc: your suggestions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Best regards, Aigars mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
