Re: [gentoo-project] Questions for Gentoo Council nominees: Bringing new people

[Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org>]

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On 2019-06-15 12:24, 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.
> 
> Life changes, some developers eventually quit; number of packages
> is growing (not only in Gentoo, but world-wide), their complexity
> grows. All this requires new developers.
> 
> How do you propose to bring new people to our team? What as the
> Council member you can do?
> What do you think on current entrance threshold?
> 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?

I want to quote from my previous Manifest:

> Lack of manpower is always a problem. But I don't think it is the
> council's job to change this. Job is maybe the wrong word but if you
> would hope for a new council which will create a PR campaign for Gentoo
> then please don't vote for me. Like I don't think that any government in
> this world can create jobs on their own, I don’t believe that a single
> committee in Gentoo alone can lead to interested persons becoming
> developers.
> For me, it is the project itself which must be interesting enough. But a
> closed or toxic community would scare away anyone interested in the
> project. However, it is not the council's job to make sure these
> requirements are met. It is the responsibility of every single member of
> the Gentoo community to keep this project interesting and make sure that
> people want to join and stay in the community. So it is the community
> which must define and live the rules. And the council will only act only
> by majority decision of the community.


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Regards,
Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer
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