Hi, I have decided to stop involvement with the Project as a proxied maintainer, and to stop pursuing becoming a developer. Two main reasons for this, one the community is at times openly hostile on the mailing lists and IRC, of which I have asked people on IRC about whom have responded this is the norm(once in awhile vents is fine it happens but this has been consistently visible) this is ignoring cultural differences that may cause misunderstanding; Secondly the community is very insular and unwelcoming to new comers.
In twelve months of working with people only 2 have actively encouraged involvement (shout out to Idella4 and pacho for this), some projects didn't respond, or if they did they provided no details or feedback to those of us who where new and trying to contribute. I don't want to mention names about the negatives because I don't blame the individuals; it too me seems to be systemic within the community. I have a few comments about how I think you could improve things, but feel free to ignore they are offered in the spirit of constructive criticism: Review your CoC, its open to abuse as pointed out on another thread. Enforcement of rules should be consistent. Review your recruitment strategies, and framework for contribution. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ might be of interest to some posters! construct a well reason argument - but be prepared to reconsider! Finally encourage Active involvement from all Developers in Gentoo matters not just in their packages, apathy is your worst enemy I have updated one outstanding ticket for bugzilla from last week that was assigned to me as maintainer wanted, and will shortly put through a pull request on github which updates the meta data for bugzilla and displaycal removing me as a maintainer. To end on a positive note, I was a user for many years and will continue for the short term at the very least as I think the concept of gentoo is great. Cheers, Craig
