On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 10:33 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 04/06/2011 07:54 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > How can a company dedicate a few man-hours per week to help CentOS? > > I mean this in a more official way, rather than just a person dropping > > by at the -devel list. > > Thats a very good question, and something more people should be asking > : here is a terse reply : adopt a part of the distro, contribute tests > and take ownership of driving support for those components forward ( so, > wiki content, support in irc channels and support for users on those > components in the mailing lists ). Start with a package or two, then > move that forward. Start with whats already in the distro.
Ah! I like the sound of this. This can be a start. What I understand by this, is adopt a package, test it out, and update the community via wiki, hanging in the IRC channels and answering questions on the mailing list. What about having some users adopt a package, say maybe in teams of 3 with different responsibilities. So for example, if someone 'adopts' package foo - two others should join in and they can split the load between them, so one guy can be in charge of watching the list, and giving a 'nudge' offlist to the 'parent' of foo, another can post twitter updates, or list announcments to a timetable - It's just an idea, but i believe with a touch of visibility, to the workload on a package level will shut up everyone, and change the argument from when will it be READY, to DAMN we gots loads of work to do to help out to get it READY. We can then even really measure of well the community can get new releases out the door. We can eventually streamline the process, come on, don't we consider ourselves kick ass? Can't we use something like launchpad? There *must* be some collaborative tools that we can leverage, after all, they all run on CENTOS do they not!? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
