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Re: Contacting Debian Kernel team



On Mon, 2024-05-20 at 08:25 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to officially contact all our teams to learn about potential
> issues that might affect your work.  I would love to learn how you
> organise / share your workload.  If you do some regular meetings - be it
> on IRC, video conference or whatever I'm interested in joining one of
> your next meetings.

We currently don't have regular meetings, but have just been discussing
this and are likely to start soon.

[...]
> I'd also like to inform you that I've registered a BoF for DebConf24 in
> Busan with the following description:
> 
>   This BoF is an attempt to gather as much as possible teams inside
>   Debian to exchange experiences, discuss workflows inside teams, share
>   their ways to attract newcomers etc.
[...]
> I'm sure not everybody will be able to travel this distance but it would
> be great if you would at least consider joining that BoF remotely.  I'll
> care for a somehow TimeZone aware scheduling - if needed we'll organise
> two BoFs to match all time zones.

I won't be attending DebConf 24, but might be able to join remotely if
it's scheduled at the end of the day in local time.

[...]
> I have some specific questions to the Debian Kernel team.
> 
>   - Do you feel good when doing your work in Kernel team?

That depends very much on which work I'm doing.  Some of it is quite
tedious (and I'm trying to automate some of that at the moment).

>   - Team metrics currently shows two current contributors
>     (Ben and Salvatore).  Do you consider the workload well
>     shared in your team?

I'm not sure what that's based on, but it is not an accurate summary. 
I have not been very active in the past year outside of LTS.  But if
you look at the linux changelog you'll see quite a few other regular
contributors.

>   - Do you have some strategy to gather new contributors for
>     your team?

We don't.

>   - Can I do anything for you?

My top priority would be more computing resources for Salsa, and
particularly for CI runners.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.

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