On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 01:05:30AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be> [2004.07.16.0029 +0200]:
> > A "job description" is a nice word which stems from the enterprise
> > world and which doesn't do much more than helping people find an
> > excuse to a) fire other people ("these two people have the exact
> > same job description, surely we can fire one of them"), or b) say
> > "no" when asked to do some job ("it isn't part of my job, look at
> > the friggin' job description!"); It isn't actually helpful in any
> > way, *especially* not in a volunteer organization.
>
> I disagree. I concur that one should help and submit patches instead
> of saying "here i am, gimme work to do", but before I consider
> volunteering for a position, I want to know what is expected from me
> in that position.
It doesn't always have to work that way. In fact...
...right.
<http://mailman.nocrew.org/pipermail/m68k-build/2001-June/003676.html>.
That's how I became a buildd maintainer: someone suggested I'd become
one, and I jumped in. Feet first.
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