Hi, > > Apparently the problem isn't that no help is needed but that nobody has time > > to train the new help, citing possible burn-out trying to get answers from > > the > > existing members and leaving in disappointment, if not disgust. (My > > interpretation …) > > > > While that's a valid concern, it's a problem every manager of an overworked > > team in the world has faced, volunteer or not. > > > > There are (of course) multiple ways to approach this issue. The point (and I > > assume the reason Andreas basically ignored the team's rejection of new > > members) is that "do nothing until somebody has time to train new people" is > > among the worst possible approaches: experience tells us that the most > > likely > > outcome is "another team members quits". > > You can't just throw people at a team of volunteers who are busy doing > other things and say "train them". Nobody wins, there, and the > candidates won't come back at a time when those volunteers *do* have the > time to do the training.
I don't think you are quoting the DPL above correctly. I think he had good judgement, and raising awareness of FTP Masters team being spread thin and needing more help in a Bits from DPL announcement is the correct thing to do. New people standing up and stating they want to help is a good thing, even with the risk that some of those people would go away while waiting. I did also read the queue processing time reports by Matthias and Timo. On a quick look I wasn't able to find stats on which FTP Master team member has done how many reviews, but in my experience it seems to rely on the heroic efforts of a very few people (thanks Thorsten for all your work!), and having more people in the team would be of great benefit for Debian, and rightly something the DPL should help with.
