Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

2007-01-08 Thread Simon Stelling
Hi, Ivan Sakhalin wrote: Now, our memories of the past are not always as thruthful as we would like them to be, selective memory is what makes some large things small and some small things large. So let us not idealize the past as if it had no problems, but let us try to keep a perspectiv

Re: OT - "Good skills" (WAS: Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo)

2007-01-07 Thread Daniel Drake
Michael Sullivan wrote: I would like to help with coding/debugging packages for Gentoo. I have some programming experience on a very small scale. I have an Associates of Computer Science from a small community college, and I've never had a job working for a software company. You spode of "good

Re: OT - "Good skills" (WAS: Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo)

2007-01-07 Thread Alec Warner
Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 22:56 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:52:04 -0600 Michael Sullivan >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> | > I have been doing most recruits lately. There has always been a >> | > steady flow of good people wanting to become devs so

Re: OT - "Good skills" (WAS: Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo)

2007-01-07 Thread Luca Barbato
Michael Sullivan wrote: I mean where do I start improving my skills? I've looked at source code from Gentoo packages that was written in C (I know the basics of C) and it made no sense to me. I found the experience quite overwhelming. Is there a place I can start training myself to work on b

Re: OT - "Good skills" (WAS: Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo)

2007-01-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 22:56 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:52:04 -0600 Michael Sullivan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > I have been doing most recruits lately. There has always been a > | > steady flow of good people wanting to become devs so that is not a > | > problem.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

2007-01-07 Thread Bryan Østergaard
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 10:14:26PM +0100, Ivan Sakhalin wrote: > Dear friends and fellow Gentooists, > > > While the politics around these cases make rational discussion quite > difficult > it is obvious even to outsiders that this is not in the spirit of the > original Gentoo

Re: OT - "Good skills" (WAS: Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo)

2007-01-07 Thread Seemant Kulleen
> I would like to help with coding/debugging packages for Gentoo. I have > some programming experience on a very small scale. I have an Associates > of Computer Science from a small community college, and I've never had a > job working for a software company. You spode of "good enough skills";

Re: OT - "Good skills" (WAS: Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo)

2007-01-07 Thread Petteri Räty
Michael Sullivan kirjoitti: >> I have been doing most recruits lately. There has always been a steady >> flow of good people wanting to become devs so that is not a problem. The >> biggest problem is having enough people interested in guiding new people >> and making sure they have good enough skil

Re: OT - "Good skills" (WAS: Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo)

2007-01-07 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:52:04 -0600 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > I have been doing most recruits lately. There has always been a | > steady flow of good people wanting to become devs so that is not a | > problem. The biggest problem is having enough people interested in | > guidin

OT - "Good skills" (WAS: Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo)

2007-01-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
> I have been doing most recruits lately. There has always been a steady > flow of good people wanting to become devs so that is not a problem. The > biggest problem is having enough people interested in guiding new people > and making sure they have good enough skills. I would like to help with c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

2007-01-07 Thread Petteri Räty
Ivan Sakhalin kirjoitti: >- Reduce the rules so that things can be done without a week of > discussion for every small idea I have yet to see people refuse written code that has no technical problems so instead of talking about how to implement stuff, go out there and write it instead. >