On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 13:28:02 +0200 Ralph Seichter <gen...@seichter.de> wrote:
> Looking at the number of open pull requests (some of them my own), I > wonder if Gentoo has become a bit of a victim of its own success as far > as contributions are concerned. I've said as much, at least with regards to the addition of GitHub. The problem is that maintainers are not supposed to just blindly merge contributions but they often lack the time to test them. Such contributions also frequently have issues as the authors have not done the developer quizzes. We try to guide contributors through the necessary changes but this can lead to fatigue on both sides. > Is there any way I could help the Gentoo team? Any vacancies that need > to be filled, or work that needs to be done? Following what I said above, we need more actual bona fide developers who have done the quizzes, understand the issues, can most important can take responsibility for their own contributions. There is the proxy maintainers project, where we can accept contributions with a little less scrutiny, but I personally feel that these contributors really should just become developers. It doesn't matter if you're only interested in one or two packages, any help is very welcome. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer
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