From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 4 17: 2: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F0F837B95C for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:01:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA20244; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:01:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Michael Lucas Cc: blk@skynet.be (Brad Knowles), Doug@gorean.org, drjolt@redbrick.dcu.ie, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world failed In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Apr 2000 19:49:29 EDT." <200004042349.TAA78471@blackhelicopters.org> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 17:01:37 -0700 Message-ID: <20241.954892897@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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