Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 17:01:37 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: blk@skynet.be (Brad Knowles), Doug@gorean.org, drjolt@redbrick.dcu.ie, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world failed Message-ID: <20241.954892897@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Apr 2000 19:49:29 EDT." <200004042349.TAA78471@blackhelicopters.org>
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> I'd actually suggest that you (plural you, not Brad you) turn this > around. All very well said. Volunteers have to also remember that we have no way of gauging their skill-set from here and even when we do, it's hard to say just how much of that skill-set will be brought to bear on project-related activities. Most really skillful people have too little time available to do anything really in-depth unless they go on sabbatical or somehow wangle a job working for BSDI (we're taking applications! :) so skills are hardly the only useful metric. That's why it's best to approach it sort of organically. The volunteer looks around for something which matches both their skill-set and their time available, throws out a brief discussion to make sure they're not about to reinvent any wheels, then goes for it. That's pretty much how 90% of the current -committers got where they are, in fact. A substantial number of the remaining 10% got there because they were forcibly shoved into committership, but only because they were sneakily making their significant contributions through someone else until we caught them at it. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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