Hi, On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 at 10:24, Nilesh Patra wrote: > On 05/03/25 4:47 pm, Sean Whitton wrote: > > On Tue 04 Mar 2025 at 09:40am +01, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > >> Dear Debian community, > >> > >> this is bits from DPL for February. > >> > >> > >> Ftpmaster team is seeking for new team members > >> ============================================== > > > > No, we are not. > > > > Andreas asked us whether we would like a call for volunteers included in > > Bits. Multiple team members explicitly told him that we now would not > > be a good time for that, for us. > > Do you mind clarifying why that's the case, unless the reason is truly > personal or undisclosable?
+1 According to https://ftp-master.debian.org/ there are currently no 'FTP Trainees'. I would assume you would like to have some at all time to ensure the team has a healthy pipeline of new members being trained? Looking at the stats for NEW queue length in https://ftp-master.debian.org/stat/new-5years.png it seems to have been the highest ever in November 2024 to January 2025, and the numbers didn't come down until heroic efforts by mainly one person (Thorsten). Many of the aspiring Debian Developers I mentor have been stuck with their work pending in the NEW queue for months. For example an upload of src:godot to change source package name to src:godot3 with almost no other changes has been pending almost two months, and the new contributor Travis Wrightsman has been mostly idle with his Debian work just waiting for the package to pass in order to proceed with new Godot version. With this experience I am surprised that one FTP-team member is saying that no help is needed? I wonder if that really is the opinion of others in the team too? - Otto
