El Wed, 24 May 2017 13:08:18 +0200, Bartłomiej Piotrowski escribió:
We are open source distribution with pretty much closed development model. It is unsustainable in the longer term. There are 413 orphan packages in our repositories (excluding i686), some of the out-of-date flags are unhandled since 2014.
And those are just the literally orphan ones. We have many more virtually orphan packages due to some dev/TUs not giving signs of life for months, even years. We do have a serious manpower issue, which I think it is starting to affect the quality of the distribution (eg. several DEs are currently unmaintained), and I don't see this getting any better with our current recruiting model. I do like the idea of having a 'trial period' of a couple of months for new contributors, under the supervision of a mentor, in which they could have access to svn but not to the repos, and perhaps move the voting to the end of this period. And yes, we need a central place to communicate our needs to potential new contributors. Perhaps we could start with a wiki page until we set up something more sophisticated?