Christian Faulhammer <fa...@gentoo.org> posted 20090506083356.4a561...@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Wed, 06 May 2009 08:33:56 +0200:
> Apart from growing into your job (that's what happened with me), > recruiters do quite long IRC sessions with the applicant. Apart from > questions not found in the quiz they want people to elaborate on answers > they made. As others have occasionally noted, the assumption seems to be that developers "do" IRC. While it's certainly a useful thing for those that do it, I believe I've seen a few developers speak up from time to time that say they do little if any IRC at all, doing their Gentoo comms via email (including the lists), bugs, and of course commits. Does the way remain open for such recruits? This subthread would suggest not, that IRC is now considered not just convenient or useful, but mandatory. I'd call that a shame, as it could well block otherwise productive potential devs. If it's not assumed mandatory, perhaps a bit more care should be taken to avoid creating that impression, thereby discouraging potentially valuable recruits. Maybe the world has moved on and email, etc, is now as impractical for development as snail mail. If so, I suppose it has left us old fogies behind, but somehow, I don't believe it's gone /that/ far yet, nor can I believe it will in the intermediate term future, at least. If it were, after all, this list should be near deserted. It's obviously not. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
