[2017-05-24 13:08:18 +0200] Bartłomiej Piotrowski:
How long do you expect people to be happy to send their changes to /dev/null before they give up? Because I already met some people that are more clever than me in every packaging related area that decided to switch to a distribution where joining is easier.
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We are at the point where we have needs in every area, and ad-hoc recruitment is silly idea in 2017, where some distributions are successfully having way smaller development team and are capable of accepting tens of one-off contributions every week (been there, done that). I do not propose to give up on sponsorship process entirely, I mean that we need a place to communicate with contributors and that also includes mentoring potential packagers.
Thanks for taking the time to explain what you meant. Now that I understand your point it seems like a good one indeed. Cheers. -- Gaetan