Re: GitLab access

[Valentin Villenave]

On 5/28/20, Aaron Hill <lilypond@hillvisions.com> wrote:
> In some ways, this is akin to a job interview

Gosh, I really hope it isn’t!!  My apologies if you’ve been seeing it that way.

> It is counter-productive for me to use my
> time and talents to fill a role that does not need filling.

That’s hardly been the way our community works; the only era were
there were “roles” was nearly a decade ago when Graham tried to put
together a bug triaging team and a doc editing team -- since then,
we’ve happily gone from the cathedral to the bazaar again.

I wouldn’t think of it as a “role to fill” so much as a “this may give
you additional ways to lend a hand whenever and however you feel like
it”.  That’s all: no formalized “role”, no expectations to fulfill and
--dear God-- no job interview.  (And that’s certainly the way I’m
contributing myself these days, in between discouragement phases.)

I have no doubt your knowledgeability and helpfulness will always be
much appreciated no matter the venue (-user list, -devel, bugtracker,
code reviewing, doc editing or merge requests) and, personally
speaking, the more we see of you the better.  But of course, that’s
entirely up to you and may vary from time to time depending on your
free time and motivation; these are, after all, the only two
ingredients Free Software is made of.

Cheers,
-- V.