Le Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 04:39:30PM +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin a écrit : > > We should just abolish and forbid RFPs
Recently (1~2 years) I have been a simple contributor in a different open source community, https://nf-co.re/. Here is my experience. - I mostly contribute things that fit my own needs, but - contributions are peer-reviewed and it is reciprocal system. Each time I receive help I have to help somebody else. - There are Slack channels where peple needing review or input post their request. - There are also GitHub issues with equivalents of our RFPs and ITPs. - When I want to know what to contribute to, most of the time I find what I need by looking at the latest Slack messages. Most of time if I want to start from GitHub issues, I waste my time. Issues that stay open tend to be above my level. Or are just waiting for the next spring cleanup to be cleaned. - If I am really desperate to find a task because I am in the Japan timezone and often all the peer-review work is done by the time I wake up, a core developer usually steps in and assigns something to me. - When I do not contribute, I do not need to care about Slack. Back to Debian, I also think that the return on the RFP/ITP investment is not worth the effort. And eventually, some open-source community will finally secure the terabytes and GPUs needed to train a language model that is 100% Free with no toxic candy etc, that we can use to just read our user mailing lists in all the languages of the World and ask "Hey, I am a beginner, what can I do that Debian users need?". Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from home https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy - You do not have my permission to use this email to train an AI -
