October 13, 2018 3:00 PM, "James Le Cuirot" <ch...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 13:28:02 +0200 > Ralph Seichter <gen...@seichter.de> wrote: > >> Looking at the number of open pull requests (some of them my own), I >> wonder if Gentoo has become a bit of a victim of its own success as far >> as contributions are concerned. > > I've said as much, at least with regards to the addition of GitHub. The > problem is that maintainers are not supposed to just blindly merge > contributions but they often lack the time to test them. Such > contributions also frequently have issues as the authors have not done > the developer quizzes. We try to guide contributors through the > necessary changes but this can lead to fatigue on both sides. > >> Is there any way I could help the Gentoo team? Any vacancies that need >> to be filled, or work that needs to be done? > > Following what I said above, we need more actual bona fide developers > who have done the quizzes, understand the issues, can most important > can take responsibility for their own contributions. > > There is the proxy maintainers project, where we can accept > contributions with a little less scrutiny, but I personally feel that > these contributors really should just become developers. It doesn't > matter if you're only interested in one or two packages, any help is > very welcome. I've always considered the entry barrier to become a dev too much work for keeping a small involvement. I might just be lazy or not interested enough I agree. Still I must not be the only one. I might also just have a wrong impression of what's needed. Couldnt it be possible to create more granulars levels of involvement? Corentin “Nado” Pazdera
