Re: About Package Maintenance (was: Question to all candidates: What are your technical goals)
Am Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 01:03:10PM +0000 schrieb Stefano Rivera:
> > I have also noticed that the young people we manage to recruit are
> > usually not interested too much in the boring gruntwork of maintaining
> > important core packages (like adduser and sudo) but instead want to do
> > "new" things. But, otoh, what would Debian be without sudo? Somebody
> > needs to do that work as well.
>
> To some degree, this is self-fulfilling. Most core packages have a
> maintainer. Drive-by contributions in a bug or MR are likely to go
> ignored for years. Newbies aren't going to get pulled into these
> packages, easily.
>
> Where core packages are up for adoption, they're probably pretty complex
> and maybe not the best candidate for a new contributor. The best stuff
> has probably already been adopted.
>
> All of this leads to the position we are in, where new contributors best
> road into the project is into teams. And the best way to get some
> experience is packaging something new in a team.
>
> I see one of the goals of promoting team maintenance as increasing the
> pipeline of new contributors into the maintenance of core
> infrastructure. Rather than having to wait for the current maintainers
> to slowly fade away and salvage the result after years of problems.
Very well said. Congratulations for remotely reading my mind and turn
it into those clear words.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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