Am 21.05.20 um 10:52 schrieb Ankur Sinha: > The packaging team is generally quite stretched, and we frankly need > more people helping us out.
Agreed. There might be another simple thing how we could get new contributors: I noticed that sometimes users asked in bugzilla/on a mailing list if they could help in maintaining some (more or less orphaned/unmaintained) package. IIRC they never got an answer (as nobody reads bugzilla comments for unmaintained packages). Also there was a similar post on epel-devel. I think we have a pretty big hole in the process here - it is too easy for interested people to "fall through the cracks". Also requiring them to review some unrelated packages to demonstrate their knowlegde is a pretty big hurdle. Last year there was a user who submitted a review request (which was approved) but did not find a sponsor because reviewing more packages (without some guidance to ensure the efforts won't go unnoticed) seemed to be too time consuming. Instead he chose to spend more time in upstream development. I noticed that he seemed to be aware of the most important things about packaging in Fedora and was able to connect him with a sponsor (and vouched for him by ensuring that sponsor I would be co-maintaining the new package so I could fix any fallout). Long story short: He got sponsored soon after and maintains the application in Fedora since then pretty successfully. I tried to act as primary point of contact for any questions and help solving some minor issues. => Maybe we could also scale-out if regular packagers could "mentor" (not sponsor) new packagers. To do so it would be helpful to me which sponsors have free cycles to take new packagers. Felix _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
