Am Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 01:03:10PM +0000 schrieb Stefano Rivera: > > I have also noticed that the young people we manage to recruit are > > usually not interested too much in the boring gruntwork of maintaining > > important core packages (like adduser and sudo) but instead want to do > > "new" things. But, otoh, what would Debian be without sudo? Somebody > > needs to do that work as well. > > To some degree, this is self-fulfilling. Most core packages have a > maintainer. Drive-by contributions in a bug or MR are likely to go > ignored for years. Newbies aren't going to get pulled into these > packages, easily. > > Where core packages are up for adoption, they're probably pretty complex > and maybe not the best candidate for a new contributor. The best stuff > has probably already been adopted. > > All of this leads to the position we are in, where new contributors best > road into the project is into teams. And the best way to get some > experience is packaging something new in a team. > > I see one of the goals of promoting team maintenance as increasing the > pipeline of new contributors into the maintenance of core > infrastructure. Rather than having to wait for the current maintainers > to slowly fade away and salvage the result after years of problems.
Very well said. Congratulations for remotely reading my mind and turn it into those clear words. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de
