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On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 01:24:15PM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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> As almost any FOSS project Gentoo suffers from lack of manpower in |
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> various areas. While there are technical ways to amend this like |
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> automation improvements I'd like to focus on bringing new people. |
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I would like both. Automation is a good thing, but we need new people |
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also. |
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> How do you propose to bring new people to our team? What as the |
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> Council member you can do? |
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In my opinion, this falls on all of us. I think we need to work on |
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making the community more welcoming, and that will take effort by everyone. |
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> What do you think on current entrance threshold? |
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Since I don't know what the entrance threshold for other distros is |
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like, I don't feel really prepared to comment on ours. |
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I do know we have people who are proxiied maintainers and who chose to stay |
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proxied. I'll comment more on this below. |
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> What about contributions by non-developers? Should we focus on e.g. |
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> encouraging proxied maintainers to become developers or should we |
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> grow out of the tree contributions without git tree access? |
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Yes, I would like to see the distro focus on bringing in more |
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developers. Proxy-maint is a good thing, but I would rather see |
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proxy-maint set up as a way to move people toward being developers. |
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William |
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