This mailing list has been disabled. You can no longer post or subscribe. This was requested by the developer relations team [1]. Please post to gentoo-project@... instead. [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378103 -- -- Alex Legler <a3li@...> Gentoo Security/Ruby/Infrastructure
Hi,(Continue reading)I'm a member of the LibreOffice community. LibreOffice (LibO) is the office suite project of The Document Foundation (TDF), the community-driven organization that recently forked from the Oracle-managed OpenOffice.org project. TDF/LibO is currently working on its branding and on its artwork for the LibreOffice distribution. We are currently very short of GRAPHIC ARTISTS. Notably, right now, we urgently need creative talent to help us design artwork for our websites. We need to develop a logo, and - hopefully - a MASCOT along the lines of Linux's Tux, to act as a "living" ambassador that achieves lasting recognition of our brand and products in people's minds. But we also need talent to work on icon sets and other artwork on an ongoing basis. A number of Linux distributions have announced their intention to ship LibreOffice with their future releases. We know that they frequently do re-branding work to integrate their chosen office suite in lines with their project's thinking. So we are keen to involve you in our project branding and development, so that we ship releases that better fit your needs. LibreOffice and The Document Foundation could also benefit from MENTORING and from close and ongoing involvement from established
As you might have noticed, I am no longer marked "away". But I was from 24.xii.08 -- 05.i.09, and in this case "away" meant among other things that I was pretty much away from all computers during this period. Hence this note. When I tried to catch up on emails, I had a huge number of them and probably missed some I should have read. In particular, I read no emails from bugzilla because the number of them was overwhelming and they were probably stale by the time I actually got them. If any of you sent me something I needed to see but I have not responded to, I probably missed it. Please resend anything you think I should have responded to but have not done so. Thanks and regards, Ferris -- -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@...> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees)
Just a note to let people know that I will not be very responsive from 24.xii.08 until 05.i.09. If you really want me for something, I'll be around, sort of, but it might take a while to get my attention. I'll put a note in my ~/.away file to that effect later. Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor <at> gentoo.org> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees)
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 12:47 +0000, Tomáš Krejčí wrote: > Hallo. My name is Tomas Krejci. I am from Czech Republic. I am > interested in linux relatively short time and I use Gentoo Linux. I > think Gentoo is very good distribution and i want to help you. Do you > have some job for me? Thanks. > PS: I am sorry. My English isn't good. I study English few years. This is probably the wrong mailing list, so I am forwarding your request to the recruiters. Also, there is information on how to become a developer at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml and in particular, http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1&chap=2 As a general guide, it helps if you keep visible in the community. Take part in Bugday, be active on IRC and the Forums, and things like that. Depending on the system(s) you work on, several architectures like to recruit developers as architecture testers first. If you are interested in specific packages, talk to the people who maintain them. Basically, I think, we will want to discuss your background and experience with you and make suggestions or work with you from there. We always welcome help and participation. On another matter entirely. I see you are in the Czech Republic. Are you ever on the Freenode IRC network? If so, please contact me in either #gentoo-devrel or in #gentoo-trustees on another matter entirely. Good luck, and Regards,(Continue reading)
I am floating this for comment. Several Gentoo projects --- the ones CC on this note come to mind --- are pure staff (or support) projects. As members of these projects we do not develop anything; what we provide is support to Gentoo as a whole and to individual developers, users, and projects. To do this effectively, we must be known and visible. Recently, however, we ran into a question of whether or not a particular developer was or was not a member of one of these support projects, and resolving this (if it is resolved) was not as easy as you would think. Why not? First, it is just a fact of Gentoo that the home pages for our projects are often out of date and thus unreliable indicators of who does what (yes, devrel is guilty of this: slarti --- who is retired --- is listed as a member of devrel). Second, the developer in question was not marked present on the project's channel. Nonetheless, all these projects do have IRC channels and their members are often online. Thus, I propose as a devrel policy (and as a suggestion to the other support channels) that (1) if you are a member of devrel, and (2) if you are online in freenode, then (3) you must take the time to /join #gentoo-devrel unless you can articulate a good reason not to. Reasoning suggested above, but follows specifically thus: (1) devrel (or whatever) is a support project (like juman resources for Gentoo); (2) You are a member of devrel; (3) The only reason to be a member of devrel is to provide support of some sort;(Continue reading)
Hi all. The Ombudsman project have grown thinner with some members leaving Gentoo and others not having as much time for it as they used to. Ombudsman and Developer Relations have therefore made a joint decision to end the Ombudsman project and instead move conflict mediation to Developer Relations itself. It is our hope that the decision to close the Ombudsman project and incorporate the mediation function more directly in Developer Relations will help strengthen that part as more people will be able to help on any given case. We've made a few small changes to the Conflict Resolution policy to reflect these changes and make sure that mediation is still an important part of resolving conflicts. The updated policy is available at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/policy.xml. Finally I'd like to thank Grant (g2boojum), Seemant and Michael (marineam) for their great work as Ombudsman and welcome Michael as an official member of Developer Relations conflict resolution team. Regards, Bryan Østergaard -- -- gentoo-devrel@... mailing list
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Recently, in the context of a small dispute and clear violation of both established policy and Code of Conduct, hparker raised the question, "why don't we treat all violators the same?" (This in the context of the ciaranm hearing a year ago.) This is a reasonable question, and I'd like to make a few observations, perhaps relevant to it. 1. The vast majority of our developers and users are unfailingly polite and respectful in their correspondence. (Well, most of our developers are silent. If you pick any given thread (on -dev), I doubt if more that 20 people contribute, and I think for each thread, it's pretty much the same 20.) 2. Occasionally, any one of us (developers or users collectively) will temporarily "lose it." I think at most such an event should trigger a (perhaps private) warning "Please don't do that --- you know better." I also think such a note along with an opportunity for the offender to cool off will solve the problem. This sort of event is normal now and then in a community our size, and generally there is no real harm. 3. Some times, however, the offender will not "cool off", and there will be a complaint filed to devrel. This is when devrel steps in in a more formal capacity. In the normal course of events, the complaint is sent to the ombudsmen to try to effect a reconciliation, and they are usually successful. When they are not, then Homer's observation kicks in, and we have to process it. This is not a pleasant task.(Continue reading)
Hi all. Petteri Räty (betelgeuse) is replacing Mike Doty (kingtaco) as recruiters lead and will be leading the team in cooperation with myself. Petteri has been very active ever since he became a recruiter and is also actively trying to keep an eye on new recruits and keep them (and the portage tree) out of harms way. I'm sure many of you appreciate his work so far and I'm looking forward to working with Petteri on improving the recruitment processes. I'd also like to thank Mike for his work as a recruiter and in leading the team - I hope you'll still poke us with new ideas from time to time. Regards, Bryan Østergaard -- -- gentoo-devrel@... mailing list
Hi all. Recruiters have been talking about changing our quizzes for a very long time as most of the questions are a bit outdated and the quizzes doesn't cover any new material from the last 2 years approximately. What we'd like to do is make a big pool of questions that we can randomly draw 20 questions from (or some other arbitrary number) and have each recruitee do slightly different quizzes that way. It's my hope that this will: - help cover more areas - avoid the copy/paste syndrom that we're sometimes seeing - help make sure that the mentor spends more than 30 minutes on mentoring (yes, some mentors are fairly bad in this regard) - make it more interesting for recruiters as well as devs mentoring several people (less repetition) But to do all this we need some help from interested parties to create a big pool of questions. To make this possible we've set up a equizapp@... alias where we can discuss the form of the future quizzes as well as quiz questions. Mike Doty has a few ideas on the application side of things and will write those up later today. But for now interested people should add themselves to the alias (if you're a dev and have access to that) or contact me on irc or by email so I can possibly add you. I'm not only looking for current devs but a strong knowledge of ebuilds, eclasses etc. is required. Regards,(Continue reading)
Hi all. There's been a few changes in Developer Relations today. Developer Relations have a private channel where we can discuss ongoing complaints in privacy and from time to time vent some frustrations without taking it out on random developers. Needless to say we have a policy that whatever is said in the private channel stays private. There's been leaks in the past and yesterday one devrel member pasted parts of a conversation to somebody outside devrel. I believe I've been very explicit in the past about leaks being completely unacceptable but as this obviously isn't honored by all I've made the following changes effective immediately: - The access list for the private channel have been cleaned up so only members of the conflict resolution team and myself have access. Other devrel members can be /invite'd if/when neccessary. - I've kicked out several people from devrel due to either inactivity or no clearly defined role in devrel. The developer who leaked the conversation is among those according to logs I've been presented. Mail aliases, devrel pages and bugzilla permissions have also been cleaned up at the same time. - I've notified devrel and the now former devrel members about all of this and explained my reasons. If anybody have any complaints about this I'd ask you to contact me by /msg or email. - There will be further cleaning up of at least recruiters but I need to talk to Mike Doty (kingtaco) before doing that.(Continue reading)
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