Am Mittwoch, dem 01.06.2022 um 22:17 +0200 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus: > Hi, > > to help new contributors get their first contribution into Guix I > think it would be good to do this: > > 1. create a new private mailing list or mailing alias > guix-ment...@gnu.org > > 2. ask for experienced Guix contributors who are committed to helping > new contributors to subscribe to the list > > 3. update the Contributing section in the manual (and the website) to > suggest Cc-ing guix-ment...@gnu.org for a first contribution. > > 4. have subscribers to guix-ment...@gnu.org “claim” a contribution > within 48 hours, to avoid dilution of responsibilit. Every > contribution must be acknowledged. > > [...] > > What do you think about this? As a specific measure against potential abuse as well as a way of helping out newcomers, what if instead of making new contributors CC guix-mentors, we made it so that forwarding to guix-mentors is handled by the spam filter? That is once it's established that a new contribution is actually a contribution, the patch is forwarded separately to guix-mentors (along with reply-to: for the original bug etc. set up in a way that's useful to mentors), claiming takes place, and so on.
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