On Tuesday 05 May 2009 20:37:24 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 04 May 2009 21:47:08 +0100 > > George Prowse <george.pro...@gmail.com> 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 new backbone of new developers who > > will hopefully be here for years to come. > > 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 spent fixing all the screwups made by people who were only > recruited to make up numbers. Gentoo needs better developers, not more > developers. We surely need more developers. Otherwise we ll end up maintaining 100<x<500 each one. Just look at the numbers ( total packages/total ACTIVE developers ). So first we need to attract more people. Evaluation and recruitment comes next -- Markos Chandras (hwoarang) Gentoo Linux Developer [KDE/Qt/Sound/Sunrise] Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org
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