Re: New contributor experience

[Andrey Rakhmatullin]

On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 10:21:28AM +0200, Joachim Zobel wrote:

Hi.

Since I am relatively new contributing to Debian (while doing software
development for 3 decades). I thought it might be useful to share a bit
of the experience.

One fundamental thing is that you may not be welcomed simply because
there is nobody there welcoming you. Adding a merge request for a fix
may be pointless, because nobody will merge it. Reviewing is a certain
effort and nobody has time for that.

--
WBR, wRAR

Also because MRs are second-class citizens and maintainers normally don't even get notifications that one was created.

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