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October 13, 2018 3:00 PM, "James Le Cuirot" <chewi@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 13:28:02 +0200 |
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> Ralph Seichter <gentoo@××××××××.de> wrote: |
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>> Looking at the number of open pull requests (some of them my own), I |
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>> wonder if Gentoo has become a bit of a victim of its own success as far |
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>> as contributions are concerned. |
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> I've said as much, at least with regards to the addition of GitHub. The |
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> problem is that maintainers are not supposed to just blindly merge |
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> contributions but they often lack the time to test them. Such |
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> contributions also frequently have issues as the authors have not done |
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> the developer quizzes. We try to guide contributors through the |
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> necessary changes but this can lead to fatigue on both sides. |
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>> Is there any way I could help the Gentoo team? Any vacancies that need |
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>> to be filled, or work that needs to be done? |
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> Following what I said above, we need more actual bona fide developers |
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> who have done the quizzes, understand the issues, can most important |
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> can take responsibility for their own contributions. |
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> There is the proxy maintainers project, where we can accept |
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> contributions with a little less scrutiny, but I personally feel that |
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> these contributors really should just become developers. It doesn't |
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> matter if you're only interested in one or two packages, any help is |
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> very welcome. |
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I've always considered the entry barrier to become a dev too much work for keeping a small involvement. |
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I might just be lazy or not interested enough I agree. Still I must not be the only one. |
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I might also just have a wrong impression of what's needed. |
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Couldnt it be possible to create more granulars levels of involvement? |
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Corentin “Nado” Pazdera |