Re: Important issues missed from monthly meeting

Alistair Bush <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.java
Message-ID <[email protected]>

William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 22:35 +1300, Alistair Bush wrote:
>> Seeing that only me and fordfrog turned up to the meeting :P  I would
>> like to summarize and discuss some of the issues that were planned.
>>
>> 1)  Potential Recruits:
>>
>> Basically I am getting completely sick and tired of the good work that
>> Elvanor is doing and therefore strongly think that he should be offered
>> the carrot of temptation/corruption.
>>
>> I am happy to be his Sith Lord, if non of the other devs that are up the
>> queue (Caster?, wltjr?, fordfrog) have the time required.
>>
>> I would very much like to see this topic title changed to New Recruit
>>
>> Does anyone have any concerns/issues they want to raise about this?
> 
> I have no problem. I briefly brought it an up believe Petteri has some
> QA and lack of knowledge issues, and etc. So we just likely need get
> Elvanor started in the quiz process. Fill in the gaps in knowledge or
> etc during that process. In his defense I made a comment about people
> like me specifically still asking the obvious or things I should know
> already at times.
> 
> So willingness, responsibility, etc I think should have greater weight
> than just technical proficiency. Not that proficiency should be
> overlooked or ignored. But that can come in time :) Or not as in my
> case ;)
> 

Your not the only one

If technical proficiency was the only criteria, I would have been forced
to hang up my hat in the first week of devship ( Does anyone remember my
first week? :| ) ( Has anyone noticed how I'm hacking out java-config? )
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