[gentoo-project] Questions for Gentoo Council nominees: Bringing new people

[Andrew Savchenko]

On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 12:42:20 +0300 Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Last year we had a good initiative: it addition to (or even instead
> of) manifests nominees were asked questions by voters. So let's
> continue this year.
>
> I propose to have one question per thread spawned by this e-mail to
> keep discussion focused. If you have multiple questions, please
> start multiple threads. If your question was already asked, please
> join a thread.
>
> I'll ask my questions in subsequent e-mails.

As almost any FOSS project Gentoo suffers from lack of manpower in
various areas. While there are technical ways to amend this like
automation improvements I'd like to focus on bringing new people.

Life changes, some developers eventually quit; number of packages
is growing (not only in Gentoo, but world-wide), their complexity
grows. All this requires new developers.

How do you propose to bring new people to our team? What as the
Council member you can do?
What do you think on current entrance threshold?
What about contributions by non-developers? Should we focus on e.g.
encouraging proxied maintainers to become developers or should we
grow out of the tree contributions without git tree access?

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko