Re: Question to candidates: About burnout and in-person meetings
On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 12:17:22AM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've three questions.
>
> 1. There are many contributors who maintain a large chunk of packages, including
> but not limited to key packages. The bus factor on some key packages is good, on
> others, it's usually one or two people doing a large majority of work.
>
> What are your views on ensuring that major parts of the system are maintained
> more sustainably, easing off too much workload on just a few people?
>
> 2. As an extension of previous question, this is also true for some of the DPL delegated
> teams. Lot of work and less bandwidth, and the role in some of these teams are directly
> related to package maintenance. How do you go about it here?
Frankly I don't see what can be done there externally. Building teams
takes people to get together and work together, and we can't really
force them to do that.
>
> 3. I read in at least 2 of all DPL candidate platforms this year that they intend to
> promote in-person meetings and f2f meetings. That sounds good.
> However, there are always travel constraints for many contributors or even
> time synchronization problems. How do you ensure that people who do not get to attend such
> meetings also get a chance to participate?
We should also make use of our Jitsi server. All of these are additional
tools and it's up to the teams that want to use them to use them; we can
only provide the resources and perhaps say yes or no if someone has
travel expenses for some critical team meeting.
In theory you can have remote attendance, but I never found that to be a
meaningful option for in-person events. It's very lackluster and you'll
miss the important conversations outside of what is being streamed or
what they turned Jitsi on for.
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