Re: Bits from the Debian Community Team (Jan 2020)
Hi Jean-Philippe,
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote:
>>
>> Last (but definitely not least!): We're continuing to look for more
>> volunteers to help in the Community Team. While we strongly believe
>> that making Debian a good and welcoming place for collaboration is a
>> responsibility of *all* members of our community, there's also a need
>> for dedicated people to assist when things are not working so well. If
>> you think you'd like to help, please contact us - we promise not to
>> bite! :-)
>
>The process you follow to accept or not new contributors is not quite
>clear for me and/or not encouraging. When I proposed help, I had a
>further reply saying "if we accept, we contact you, otherwise no". But
>as there is not timing, impossible to know wether the application is
>accepted or rejected and why. I guess now my application was rejected,
>no problem, but it works like a job, strange. More communication would
>have helped.
Arg, please accept my apologies here. Something has clearly gone wrong
- I believed other members of the team were talking to you, and then
things went quiet. The last thing we want to be doing here is losing
new volunteers! If we haven't annoyed you too much, I'd like to talk
some more - please reply to community@d.o (in CC)?
>Furthermore, you should explain the process for anyone who would want
>to help to make people want to do so. And what are your criteria or
>whatever.
ACK. We don't have much formal process in place so far, which is
something we're hoping to improve on. What we've done for the most
recent three new members (me, Andy and Luke) is:
* Ask potential new members for more details of background, and how
they see they might fit. *Ideally* we're looking for existing
history of working in Debian or elsewhere in a *social*
context. And we're keen to see that volunteers have the
empathy/care/respect that we're selecting for.
* Assuming within the team that everybody happy with the responses,
we start new people off with a couple of trial incidents, working
directly alongside existing team members to see how things go.
* If that all goes well, we add the new people and progress!
We've been a little disorganised and slow about driving this process,
as I'm sure Andy and Luke will attest. But we do get there.
>I dont remove my proposal if not yet rejected, but indeed I am less
>motivated, all the more I wonder what I would have done in recent
>difficult situations in Debian related to CoC.
ACK!
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