El Wed, 24 May 2017 13:08:18 +0200, Bartłomiej Piotrowski escribió: > We are open source distribution with pretty much closed development > model. It is unsustainable in the longer term. There are 413 orphan > packages in our repositories (excluding i686), some of the out-of-date > flags are unhandled since 2014.
And those are just the literally orphan ones. We have many more virtually orphan packages due to some dev/TUs not giving signs of life for months, even years. We do have a serious manpower issue, which I think it is starting to affect the quality of the distribution (eg. several DEs are currently unmaintained), and I don't see this getting any better with our current recruiting model. I do like the idea of having a 'trial period' of a couple of months for new contributors, under the supervision of a mentor, in which they could have access to svn but not to the repos, and perhaps move the voting to the end of this period. And yes, we need a central place to communicate our needs to potential new contributors. Perhaps we could start with a wiki page until we set up something more sophisticated?