On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 3:32 AM, Miroslav Suchý <msu...@redhat.com> wrote: > > I had the talk [1] about Fedora Sponsorship process at Flock. And we had > > very interesting follow-up discussion. > > > > We come up with several improvements, which should be easy to implement > and > > may improve the process a lot. I am posting it here so more people can > see > > that and join the discussion. > > > > Overall, I think the biggest problem with our Fedora contributor > on-boarding process is that it's not so easy to discover people to > help people get started. One thing I think Mageia (the other > distribution I'm primarily involved in) does better is the discovery > bit. As part of the on-boarding process[1], new contributors are > encouraged to jump into a dedicated IRC channel (#mageia-mentoring) > where they can meet people to help them through the process. Something > like this might make it easier for people to find sponsors and find a > mentor to teach them about how to make packages and be a Fedora packager. > Perhaps having a mailing list and an IRC channel for this in Fedora > might help make this process smoother. > > [1]: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager > > Yeah, one thing that I remember when I was trying to become a packager is that the instructions for how to get sponsored on the wiki contained (and still contain) the phrase "When submitting a new package, usually a sponsor finds you", which I think is a bit... overly optimistic in many situations. Also at the time I was intimidated by the prospect of getting involved with discussions on this list and IRC, which didn't help. I looked at the Mageia how-to-become-a-packager process briefly a while ago (my laptop dual-boots Fedora and Mageia, although I am primarily a Fedora person), and I did notice how it seemed more hands on than ours. A dedicated place for new contributors to go and meet potential sponsors or other mentors, be that IRC or a mailing list, would probably be a good idea. Ben Rosser
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