Jim Northrup wrote: > 1) There is nowhere specified on gentoo.org or gentoo maintained sites > I've rtfm'd specifying any hint of conduct guidelines for being a > developer interfacing with the outside world, representing the > organization. Common social ettiquette does not always reside with > skilled techies...
Since you have given zero context, I'm really not sure what you are writing about. Are you saying that you are interested in becoming a developer with the task of interfacing between the development community and the user base..? > 2) There are gentoo.org references to #gentoo-dev, but the process of > interfacing, mentoring, and recruiting are self-referential beginning > with a bootstrap of being on the good side of an existing developer. So > for those of us who do not establish favorable dialogues by filing a > bug, the door starts out closed. Thats pretty much correct - the entire development community revolves heavily around bugzilla. We use it for much more than bugs - we use it for requests, suggestions, things that just aren't quite right, improvements, software submissions, documentation submissions, and many other things that aren't actually "bugs". So pretty much any contribution anyone can make can or will go through bugzilla. Yes, we really really need bugzilla documentation. Secondary to bugzilla there is IRC and mailing lists. It's a lot harder to get recognised here though. According to my mail client, I've read some of your previous posts, but your name doesn't sound familiar at all. Names are much more memorable when you take a patch from bugzilla and have to physically write the contributors name into the package ChangeLog in return for their effort. But sometimes getting a wake-up call can be very useful. User feedback distant from the development community can be very useful. I tend to file bugs based on this kind of feedback. Take one I handled today, which I've seen a few times. The installation handbook contained this sentence for 5 months: "As shown in the above listing, the current profile contains a 2.4 subdirectory. This means that the current profile uses the 2.6 kernel." Some users find it hard to convince themselves that this might possibly *not* be a typo. And you can't blame them, once you take a step back from the understanding that Gentoo profiles are cascaded. Anyway, I'd appreciate it if you could write to Gentoo user relations with your experiences, what information you are lacking, and where you would expect to find it. Daniel -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
