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How exactly is OpenBSD planning on getting more coders that can code to their standards if they aren't willing to teach anybody? NIH + an unwillingness to let
by tw04 10y ago
How exactly is OpenBSD planning on getting more coders that can code to their standards if they aren't willing to teach anybody? NIH + an unwillingness to let anyone else into the house seems like an excellent way for a project to find itself facing the brink should 1 or 2 core developers leave the project for any reason.
>without an eye to maintainability that later rots in tree and makes everyone else's job worse.
...that's the whole point of the mentors. IF that's what OpenBSD is getting out of GSoC, it's the mentor(s) fault, not GSoCs.
- throwaway2048 10y agoThey were willing to mentor people via GSoC, nobody stuck around (almost all the applicants do it for the money, rather than an interest in volenteering), ergo its not worth their time. Even in organizations that have a high priority towards onboarding new devs, GSoC retention rates are typically very low. They have no issues attracting devs via other channels.
- SamReidHughes 10y ago2 core developers? It's a fact of life that college students suck in deep and vexatious ways at writing multithreaded C. They aren't even good 1 core developers. OpenBSD's recruitment targets should be more experienced people.
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