Ahmad Khalifa <ah...@khalifa.ws> writes: > But something has to break the cycle. There is no daily standup or a > project manager to come in and ask for updates here :)
> Debian has the RFA process, orphaning, submitting another RFH, etc... > I don't know, but seems no one wants to solve this and the status quo is > fantastic as it is. I think you are reading lack of interest or opposition into a situation where the primary problem is lack of resources. I would love to solve this. I do not like the status quo. I certainly don't think the status quo is fantastic. I'm also massively behind on the packages that I already agreed to be responsible for and other Debian work that I am supposed to be doing, and given that my day job exhausts nearly all of my available energy for high-interaction discussions, I don't have the bandwidth to mentor newcomers. I suspect this is a very common problem among experienced Debian maintainers. This says bad things about the project's sustainability and I think everyone knows that. No one thinks the situation is good. But knowing that things need to improve does not create the time and energy required to improve them; in fact, in my experience, it sadly often does the opposite. It's a trap and I'm not sure how to get out of it, but the problem isn't lack of caring. It's that we have to figure out a way to get out of the trap without piling more work on people who can't handle more and will start dropping even more things if people insist. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
