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Markos Chandras wrote:
Even a "volunteer-driven" organization needs some "standard" rules in order to
survive. From time to time this "volunteer" moto is what some people consider
as "anarchy"
As far as survival goes - I think the rumors of Gentoo's death are
greatly exaggerated. I certain
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 16:50:47 Richard Freeman wrote:
> Markos Chandras wrote:
> > Even a "volunteer-driven" organization needs some "standard" rules in
> > order to survive. From time to time this "volunteer" moto is what some
> > people consider as "anarchy"
>
> As far as survival goes - I think
Hi!
On Tue, 05 May 2009, Markos Chandras wrote:
> Arch teams, according to their project pages, are in a good shape. Major
> arches have enough people ( assuming that the project pages are up2date )
If I keel over and armin76 is stuck in work/'versity, the alpha
dev count is 0. Not exactly good
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 05:06:43PM +0300, Markos Chandras wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 May 2009 16:50:47 Richard Freeman wrote:
> > Arch
> > teams seem to be generally doing a good job keeping up with STABLEREQs
> > on the major archs - if you use a minor arch that isn't as well
> > supported I'm sure we
Could be a good idea publish a status of each Gentoo project and see what is
needed, so the users/devs can offer some help.
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Sergio D. Rodríguez Inclan posted
f01ff58b0905050926o74ddf373l85a1c49a6a32...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted
below, on Tue, 05 May 2009 12:26:23 -0400:
> Could be a good idea publish a status of each Gentoo project and see
> what is needed, so the users/devs can offer some help.
Actually, the variou
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 19:26:00 Thomas Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 05:06:43PM +0300, Markos Chandras wrote:
> > On Tuesday 05 May 2009 16:50:47 Richard Freeman wrote:
> > > Arch
> > > teams seem to be generally doing a good job keeping up with STABLEREQs
> > > on the major archs - if
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 19:26:23 Sergio D. Rodríguez Inclan wrote:
> Could be a good idea publish a status of each Gentoo project and see what
> is needed, so the users/devs can offer some help.
Publish where? Blogs? mailing list? Forums? we dont have a centralized way to
inform users about such is
Markos Chandras wrote:
Some one could say "Post it on gentoo.org homepage". I wonder if users ever
visit that page to read gentoo news :\
I can safely say that some never do...
RobbieAB
Markos Chandras wrote:
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 19:26:00 Thomas Anderson wrote:
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 05:06:43PM +0300, Markos Chandras wrote:
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 16:50:47 Richard Freeman wrote:
Arch
teams seem to be generally doing a good job keeping up with STABLEREQs
on the major archs -
Markos Chandras wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 May 2009 19:26:23 Sergio D. Rodríguez Inclan wrote:
>
>> Could be a good idea publish a status of each Gentoo project and see what
>> is needed, so the users/devs can offer some help.
>>
> [snip]
>
> Some one could say "Post it on gentoo.org homepage".
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 19:52:34 George Prowse wrote:
> Is all this "help needed" stuff that ordinary users can help out with?
> If so dont people go and ask for help in the forums?
I assume that this recruitment process does not address to every single gentoo
user but to those who actually have
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 20:03:58 Mounir Lamouri wrote:
> Markos Chandras wrote:
> > On Tuesday 05 May 2009 19:26:23 Sergio D. Rodríguez Inclan wrote:
> >> Could be a good idea publish a status of each Gentoo project and see
> >> what is needed, so the users/devs can offer some help.
> >
> > [snip]
>
George Prowse schrieb:
> Thomas Sachau wrote:
>> For those, who can work with IRC and are interested in working with
>> ebuilds, there is already an option:
>>
>> Join #gentoo-dev-help or even better #gentoo-sunrise and read the
>> documentation from the topic. The
>> Sunrise Overlay (with the #gen
Thomas Sachau wrote:
George Prowse schrieb:
Thomas Sachau wrote:
For those, who can work with IRC and are interested in working with
ebuilds, there is already an option:
Join #gentoo-dev-help or even better #gentoo-sunrise and read the
documentation from the topic. The
Sunrise Overlay (with th
On Mon, 04 May 2009 21:47:08 +0100
George Prowse wrote:
> If you make it a big and special occasion which is planned correctly
> with a sufficient number of current developers who are willing to
> walk people through how and what it means to be a Gentoo Developer
> then the influx could create a
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Mon, 04 May 2009 21:47:08 +0100
George Prowse wrote:
If you make it a big and special occasion which is planned correctly
with a sufficient number of current developers who are willing to
walk people through how and what it means to be a Gentoo Developer
then the infl
On Tue, 05 May 2009 19:11:02 +0100
George Prowse wrote:
> > That's not how it works -- we know this from last time Gentoo
> > recruited a whole load of people without verifying their abilities.
> > With lots of new developers, what little time skilled developers
> > already have ends up being spen
While some of you may have heard of it, we -- the Prefix team -- have
the impression that for most developers the Gentoo Prefix project is in
general an unknown, hidden and vague project, that primarily generates a
lot of commits. Therefore, we have decided to try and explain what
Gentoo Prefix is
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On 2009.05.05 18:37, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 04 May 2009 21:47:08 +0100
> George Prowse wrote:
> > If you make it a big and special occasion which is planned
> correctly
[snip]
>
> That's not how it works -- we know this from last time Gent
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 20:37:24 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 04 May 2009 21:47:08 +0100
>
> George Prowse wrote:
> > If you make it a big and special occasion which is planned correctly
> > with a sufficient number of current developers who are willing to
> > walk people through how and what i
On Tue, 5 May 2009 21:19:49 +0300
Markos Chandras wrote:
> We surely need more developers. Otherwise we ll end up maintaining
> 100 ACTIVE developers ). So first we need to attract more people.
> Evaluation and recruitment comes next
I have a better way of improving those numbers: remove two thir
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On Tue, 05 May 2009 19:19:00 +0100
Roy Bamford wrote:
> - From your post, it appears that standards were lowered during the
> recruitment drive you reference.
Not quite.
At the time, there weren't really any particular standards during
recruitment.
El mar, 05-05-2009 a las 18:28 +0100, George Prowse escribió:
> Thomas Sachau wrote:
> > George Prowse schrieb:
> >> Thomas Sachau wrote:
> >>> For those, who can work with IRC and are interested in working with
> >>> ebuilds, there is already an option:
> >>>
> >>> Join #gentoo-dev-help or even be
>
> There is already such a place [1] but I think not so much people knows
> about it.
>
> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/staffing-needs/
>
> Mounir
>
>
None of the problems mentioned here are present on that page, the
information that could be useful is: how many developers are active, w
George Prowse wrote:
Peter Faraday Weller wrote:
Hi
Thanks,
welp
Sad to hear it mate.
As the person who did your first install for you (i think) I think you
will be missed.
I am quite surprised about what you said about the state of things
because i've got the distinct impression fro
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>
> At the very least, before attempting any mass recruitment, the quiz
> needs to be lengthened, brought up to date and split into "answer these
> on the spot on IRC without having seen the question before" and
> "research allowed" questions, and recruiters have to be prepa
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 23:45:14 AllenJB wrote:
> George Prowse wrote:
> > Peter Faraday Weller wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> welp
> >
> > Sad to hear it mate.
> >
> > As the person who did your first install for you (i think) I think you
> > will be missed.
> >
> > I am quite surprised
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Hi,
Ciaran McCreesh :
> At the very least, before attempting any mass recruitment, the quiz
> needs to be lengthened, brought up to date and split into "answer
> these on the spot on IRC without having seen the question before" and
> "research allowed
Hi,
Fabian Groffen :
> While some of you may have heard of it, we -- the Prefix team -- have
> the impression that for most developers the Gentoo Prefix project is
> in general an unknown, hidden and vague project, that primarily
> generates a lot of commits. Therefore, we have decided to try an
Hi,
any project lead/member can post an answer to this mail for a status
report:
Gentoo Lisp in general:
We are working on all our problems, but some sub-projects are a bit
understaffed (e.g. Common Lisp, because pchrist is away for a year),
while Scheme is in good shape but has only one active d
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