> > 2nd RFC: Recruiting proven contributors without a mentor > > I'm aware recruiters don't really need to ask a permission here, but I > believe it's great to gauge the general feelings about this beforehand. > What would you say if recruiters started more actively approaching > potential developers? And currently I'm talking about people who have > been active for a very long time (+year or two), who keep up with > development-wise changes in Gentoo (eclasses, EAPI, virtuals...), > participate in the community, and always provide top-quality > contributions, but for some reason never got a mentor? I'd like to point > out that this method would only be for the very few ones and recruiting > through mentoring would still be the desired method. > Recruiting through > recruiters would still require the candidate to fill the > ebuild/developer quiz, and they'd have to pass it without a mentor. So > I'll emphasize: Currently only few special ones would qualify.
These who would fit here are the people where mentoring takes literally no effort. So someone could be mentor in name - which would also have the advantage that the future developer has someone to talk to if there are any problems or questions. I dont think this actually brings an improvement. -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)
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