From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7E441138334 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2019 02:39:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44ADAE092F; Wed, 19 Jun 2019 02:39:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F1F50E092D for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2019 02:39:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from linux1.home (cpe-66-68-48-101.austin.res.rr.com [66.68.48.101]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: williamh) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9E229346473 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2019 02:39:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: (nullmailer pid 16416 invoked by uid 1000); Wed, 19 Jun 2019 02:39:28 -0000 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 21:39:28 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Questions for Gentoo Council nominees: Bringing new people Message-ID: <20190619023928.GB16109@linux1.home> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org References: <20190615124220.fcf0c08b22481d5bc6c2dbe0@gentoo.org> <20190615132415.624ad287e60f3c3eabfe1891@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XF85m9dhOBO43t/C" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190615132415.624ad287e60f3c3eabfe1891@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-Archives-Salt: edf21116-c1af-43c2-a6b8-dfa75444e504 X-Archives-Hash: c4a153e7a230a4df1bb7aa62538cd738 --XF85m9dhOBO43t/C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 01:24:15PM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > As almost any FOSS project Gentoo suffers from lack of manpower in > various areas. While there are technical ways to amend this like > automation improvements I'd like to focus on bringing new people. I would like both. Automation is a good thing, but we need new people also. > How do you propose to bring new people to our team? What as the > Council member you can do? In my opinion, this falls on all of us. I think we need to work on making the community more welcoming, and that will take effort by everyone. > What do you think on current entrance threshold? Since I don't know what the entrance threshold for other distros is like, I don't feel really prepared to comment on ours. I do know we have people who are proxiied maintainers and who chose to stay proxied. I'll comment more on this below. > What about contributions by non-developers? Should we focus on e.g. > encouraging proxied maintainers to become developers or should we > grow out of the tree contributions without git tree access? Yes, I would like to see the distro focus on bringing in more developers. Proxy-maint is a good thing, but I would rather see proxy-maint set up as a way to move people toward being developers. William --XF85m9dhOBO43t/C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQTVeuxEZo4uUHOkQAluVBb0MMRlOAUCXQmgWAAKCRBuVBb0MMRl OBCCAJ9znMP4LirrIQ9skgISHiGonG1whwCdGgWFYu6mFec4uHeQ0xSVqomthe4= =D8jR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XF85m9dhOBO43t/C--