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0 pointsCarpetsmoker7y ago0 comments

Is this not how it works for pretty much more – if not all – projects? Good luck trying to land a patch in Python if the small group of core developers don't agree. Or PHP. Or Ruby. Or Firefox. Or Linux. Or anything else really.

Quite a few of the core Go devs aren't hired by Google out of the general programming pool, they were already contributing to Go and then Google asked "hey, cool stuff; why not come work on Go for us?" Again, this is pretty much how you join any core group of developers: make good contributions, get asked. Except here you actually get paid.

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coldtea7y ago· 2 in thread

>Good luck trying to land a patch in Python if the small group of core developers don't agree.

Well, Python has this: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8016/#electing-the-counc... and you can also get to be a core team member (and many have). What about Go?

CarpetsmokerOP7y ago

as mentioned in another comment, a number of people have been hired by Google "from the community" (including e.g. spf13/Steve Francia, the Go product manager). I don't have access to their HR accounts, so I can't tell you how many exactly. But if you do good work, there's a non-zero chance you'll get hired.

I think voting and whatnot are implementation details. That PEP says only core team members can vote who can join the core team, so core team choosing vs. core team voting is not all that different in practice.

coldtea7y ago

Hired employee implies control, it's not like becoming a part of a group of equals.

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