[Arianne-devel] Task politic proposal

[Miguel A. B. L. <mig...@ho...>]

Hi all,

Lately I have been thinking about the way of recruiting new people ( before 
kse case :-)  ) and I have found not motivating at all the way of looking 
for developers and what they found when they join.
I think kse's email hit several important mistakes at the recruit process. 
Mainly he says he don't want to do the ugly work: read docs, read code, fix 
docs, fix code.

That's fine. I do agree with him. Unfortunately that process is the only way 
of learning an application. So to avoid this terrible gap between desire and 
reality and after reading a few bits of Cathedral and the baazar model I 
think that it would be nice that instead of recruiting developers we simply 
request tasks to be done, that is less cathedral and more baazar model.

For example instead of a Java developer for server that needs to be 
instructed about what server is, how it works and that have to either 
frustrate himself/herself searching tasks or getting annoyed because he/she 
is assigned them, we could just send a request for tasks that need to be 
done.

Developer will apply for the task and commit a patch, no more relation to 
with arianne at all. Usual contributors could/should be granted CVS access.

What do you think? Agree? Disagree? Silence?

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