Hello,
I am running late to this discussion, but thought I could share my
personal thoughts as a data point.
On 2024-06-12 18:27, Andreas Tille wrote:
I have some specific questions to the Java packaging team.
- Do you feel good when doing your work in Java packaging team?
Yes. I attribute it to the teammates and high quality tooling, as well
as overall stability and quality of Java ecosystem.
- Do you consider the workload of your team equally shared amongst its
members?
I feel uploads per uploader should follow the power law, but I have no
data to prove that.
- Do you have some strategy to gather new contributors for your team?
Personally, not.
- Can you give some individual estimation how many hours per week you
are working on your tasks in youre team? Does this fit the amount of
time you can really afford for this task?
Roughly half an hour per week. However, I spend most of my time on often
ill-fated attempts to refresh debian/copyright when attempting to update
the few large Java packages I maintain.
- In my packaging work I frequently contacted Java packaging team and
usually got help very quickly - thanks a lot for this. The only
thing I was not happy about is the fact that the team decided to make
the usage of Salsa CI extra hard. I've contacted the Salsa CI team
before and explicitly asked about this policy. They do not understand
and recommend to run Salsa CI as default but by no means even hide
the button to switch it on. Would you mind changing your policy about
this?
I have no opinion here.
- Can I do anything for you?
Keep up the good work!
Best wishes,
Andrius
