On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 06:49:47PM +0100, Daniel Gröber wrote: > > [...] my personal experience is that making contributions is like > > dropping a message in a bottle into the sea. It feels like a complete > > crap-shot whether I'll even receive a comment on any code contribution > > (including debian-devel RFS, salsa MR, or BTS patch). > > This is also my experience. > > A related question I've been pondering: did salsa make this worse for new > contributors because some maintainers (seem to) ignore issues/MRs there? Maybe, but also salsa MRs being ignored by default was an intentional decision AFAIK, both a technical decision of not notifying maintainers about created MRs and a policy decision of the BTS being the only officially promoted way to contact maintainers and submit patches. I have no idea if people are actually told that before they submit MRs.
> I figure for the many people coming from GH style platforms nowerdays being > ignored on salsa would be a major discouragment to contributing. Well, salsa didn't make this worse, it just added something that can be ignored. > > If there were a single thing that could be done, in my mind it would be > > to have someone make sure that contributions do not go entirely ignored. > > I've been thinking along those lines too. Perhaps we just need an > aggregator that flags mails/comments/other contributions by new people that > are being ignored. You'll still need people to provide feedback.