On 05/23/17 at 10:47am, Gaetan Bisson wrote:
[2017-05-23 22:23:51 +0200] Bartłomiej Piotrowski:
Another thing that I heard in last few months isthat it is actually hard for potential TU candidates to find a sponsor. While I believe it is perfectly fine to e-mail few potential sponsors to ask for opinion, throwing random messages at people doesn't sound really appealing.
In my opinion writing emails to strangers should be part of the application process. In my duties as packager maintainer I often find myself writing emails to various persons I've never met: other distro devs, upstream maintainers, etc. I'm sure the same goes for all of us. It's just basic communication skills.
Do we need contributors this badly that we could consider accepting applicants who are too shy to write an email to a stranger?
In my humble opinion, we should rethink the way we recruit people
I don't understand what you mean. In the past when we've had specific needs in particular areas, ad-hoc recruitment processes were devised to fill those needs. Shouldn't that be good enough? What kind of new process would you like to see implemented?
I disagree, I have the feeling there are a lot of ideas which would improve Arch Linux a lot. Which are now not being worked on (as far as I know). Therefore I think it would be great if there was a page where first time contributors can find projects, but this will require mentoring from Developers or TU's. A few things I can think of which need help: * Automate rebuilds, this is something we really need to keep rolling. * New dbscripts, moving to git, etc. * Archweb, although a lot of work is currently in progress. -- Jelle van der Waa