Hi, Seeing as there doesn't seem to be much activity on the patch pilot program, and we could make use of the same kind of story for archive health in general, I'd like to propose the idea of "+1 vanguards" to replace patch piloting.
Developers could sign up for their own "shift" of looking after proposed migration, FTBFS, etc. as well as signing up as mentors or point of contact for new contributors wishing to participate in the general health of the devel series. Vanguards sign up on a purely voluntary basis; a vanguard might just as well work on the sponsoring queue as on packages waiting in -proposed for migration, or fixing FTBFS. What seems to often be an issue is coordination of the +1 maintenance work as well as the need for an accessible point of contact for people who want to contribute; to ask questions. The hope is that it would be less intimidating for new developers than asking on #ubuntu-devel at large when they can ping someone in particular. For example, what things have already been looked at in the excuses page? Is some particular problem well know already, with an easy fix? I have updated the PlusOneMaintenanceTeam[1] pages on wiki to describe the idea (there aren't much changes from the previous version). I'd love for people's feedback. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PlusOneMaintenanceTeam Anyone interested in participating as vanguards? Regards, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <cypher...@ubuntu.com> Freenode: cyphermox, Jabber: mathieu...@gmail.com 4096R/65B58DA1 818A D123 0992 275B 23C2 CF89 C67B B4D6 65B5 8DA1
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