On 05/23/17 at 10:47am, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2017-05-23 22:23:51 +0200] Bartłomiej Piotrowski: > > Another thing that I heard in last few months isthat it is actually hard > > for potential TU candidates to find a sponsor. While I believe it is > > perfectly fine to e-mail few potential sponsors to ask for opinion, > > throwing random messages at people doesn't sound really appealing. > > In my opinion writing emails to strangers should be part of the > application process. In my duties as packager maintainer I often find > myself writing emails to various persons I've never met: other distro > devs, upstream maintainers, etc. I'm sure the same goes for all of us. > It's just basic communication skills. > > Do we need contributors this badly that we could consider accepting > applicants who are too shy to write an email to a stranger? > > > In my humble opinion, we should rethink the way we recruit people > > I don't understand what you mean. In the past when we've had specific > needs in particular areas, ad-hoc recruitment processes were devised to > fill those needs. Shouldn't that be good enough? What kind of new > process would you like to see implemented?
I disagree, I have the feeling there are a lot of ideas which would improve Arch Linux a lot. Which are now not being worked on (as far as I know). Therefore I think it would be great if there was a page where first time contributors can find projects, but this will require mentoring from Developers or TU's. A few things I can think of which need help: * Automate rebuilds, this is something we really need to keep rolling. * New dbscripts, moving to git, etc. * Archweb, although a lot of work is currently in progress. -- Jelle van der Waa
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