Mark Waddingham wrote:
On 2015-10-29 02:04, Richard Gaskin wrote:
And you may have noticed the great job Peter Brett has been doing here
and elsewhere as the main community support leader within the company.
He's one of their newer hires, having been brought on board just a
little over a year ago, but he was hired not only for his Linux
expertise but also his deep understanding of and passion for open
source process.
Just to correct you here as your statement is actually a huge disservice
to Peter and the skills and knowledge he has.
Certainly not my intention. I said only very positive things about
Peter, and the ones I noted reflect my own personal experience with him
in my volunteer role. I'm sure like everyone he has many fine traits
beyond the ones I've come to appreciate. I ventured the description I
did because it was nearly verbatim how Kevin introduced Peter to me,
which has proven more than true in my associations with him.
Each of us has dimensions to our skills and personalities that go beyond
what any single person they interact with can fully appreciate. Frankly
it's difficult to see how taking the time to write even an incomplete
list of the many excellent traits Dr. Brett brings to the table is
necessarily a "huge disservice".
Your additional background here is also good to know:
He was brought on board because he showed a huge interest, ability, and
depth of knowledge in aspects of software engineering for all the
critical areas LiveCode covers and the necessary infrastructure it
requires. Including but by no means limited to: programming language
design and implementation, GUI toolkit architecture, build system
engineering, continuous integration and test system construction,
rigorous engineering process implementation, open source software
communication and community engagement.
I must confess I never take much stock in CVs in terms of choosing
people for software engineering roles. A lot tend to be just lists of
things which people *think* they know - I rarely find them to be in any
way indicative of the knowledge people actually have. I always go by the
technical questions they ask and whether they understand my answers -
Peter passed this test with flying colours :)
Warmest Regards,
>
Mark.
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Richard Gaskin
LiveCode Community Manager
rich...@livecode.org
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