On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 3:32 AM, Miroslav Suchý <msu...@redhat.com> wrote: > I had the talk [1] about Fedora Sponsorship process at Flock. And we had > very interesting follow-up discussion. > > We come up with several improvements, which should be easy to implement and > may improve the process a lot. I am posting it here so more people can see > that and join the discussion. >
Overall, I think the biggest problem with our Fedora contributor on-boarding process is that it's not so easy to discover people to help people get started. One thing I think Mageia (the other distribution I'm primarily involved in) does better is the discovery bit. As part of the on-boarding process[1], new contributors are encouraged to jump into a dedicated IRC channel (#mageia-mentoring) where they can meet people to help them through the process. Something like this might make it easier for people to find sponsors and find a mentor to teach them about how to make packages and be a Fedora packager. Perhaps having a mailing list and an IRC channel for this in Fedora might help make this process smoother. [1]: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
