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GLEP: 8 |
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Title: Adopt-A-Developer |
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Version: $Revision: 1.3 $ |
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Last-Modified: $Date: 2004/04/04 22:56:06 $ |
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Author: Brian Jackson <iggy@gentoo.org>, |
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Thomas Cort <tcort@gentoo.org> |
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Status: Final |
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Type: Standards Track |
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Content-Type: text/x-rst |
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Created: 02-Jul-2003 |
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Post-History: 09-Jul-2003, 4-Apr-2004, 3-Sep-2006 |
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Status |
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Reactivated by tcort, now existing at |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/adopt-a-dev/. |
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Since the community has bought into it, GLEP editor g2boojum |
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has marked it as "final". |
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Credits |
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I borrowed this idea from a KDE developer name Scott Wheeler who runs a program |
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called adopt-a-geek [1]_. |
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Abstract |
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I would like to start a program to bring together Gentoo developers who need |
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hardware, and those that have hardware to donate. This project will |
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hopefully get developers that need extra hardware in touch with |
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companies/individuals with extra hardware that they wish to donate to |
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help Gentoo. |
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Motivation |
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There are some developers out there that are using very slow hardware, and some |
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that have broken equipment that they could put back into use if they |
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had one more part. This program will help developers get the most out of |
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their exisiting hardware and fix any systems that may currently be broken. |
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Specification |
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This is a pretty low risk proposal for Gentoo Linux since it only affects |
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me, and whoever else wishes to help out. This project would keep very |
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detailed records of everything that came in and out. We would actually not |
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handle any hardware. We would just facilitate connecting hardware with |
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needy developers. |
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Rationale |
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KDE seems to have had luck with this. I think it would benefit the devs, and |
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make Gentoo better as a result. It would also boost morale by letting |
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developers know they are appreciated. |
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References |
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.. [1] http://devel-home.kde.org/~wheeler/adopt-a-geek/ |
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Copyright |
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This document has been placed in the public domain. |
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