Peter Samuelson wrote:
[Anthony Towns]Hrm, I'm answering this as a "How will electing Anthony help users contribute?" question, rather than directly as the "How can user's contribute?" question it is.Actually you didn't say anything related to the DPL post.
Oh, sweet then!
Which I take to mean, "these are all fine ways to get involved, but there's not a lot that the DPL, as DPL, can do to help or hinder them."
The way the DPL can help those things is by indicating it's a problem and increasing awareness of it, by being a single point of contact for people to go to who want to help rather than having their interest just be lost, and by offering advice and support as they actually do the work. The release managers have a similar ability to promote reasonably large changes, but it's fairly restricted to things that will help the release go more smoothly. Other folks who want to do likewise have a much tougher job of getting mindshare, and will have to spend a lot of time just doing things themselves. Cheers, aj