On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 12:08 AM Prateek Nayak wrote: > the contributor profiling idea has intrigued me
Excellent, this is something that is mostly done manually via IRC at the moment. Newcomer enters a Debian IRC channel, we try to ask questions about their interests/skills/influences and point them at places that might be suitable, with the Help Debian page and the how-can-i-help package as a fallback. This approach can sometimes lead to choice overload though since there is so much to do and many newcomers don't have very specific ideas about what they want to work on. https://www.debian.org/intro/help I think it would be a good idea to explore the onboarding resources/services/processes for other Linux distributions and free software projects and see what is out there. For example Fedora/Mozilla have this Ask Not thing: https://whatcanidoforfedora.org/en/ https://whatcanidoformozilla.org/ > hosted on firestore This looks like a Google Cloud product. Official Debian services cannot rely on external/proprietary/cloud services, so please replace Firestore with software that is already packaged for Debian. > P.S. I'll love to share an entire timeline for the project Official Debian services need to be maintained indefinitely so after the initial implementation it would be important to have a team that can continually keep the service both working and evolving as Debian changes and evolving to be a good fit for the new people coming to Debian at each point in time. PS: some further advice on hosting Debian services, including gratis hosting for service experiments like this: https://wiki.debian.org/ServicesHosting -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
