On 18/03/13 at 12:03 +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 12:41:05PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > Tasks I am quite sure I will do are: > (...) > > - investigate the "localization" of -mentors@ and #-mentors. Language is > > often > > a barrier for new contributors. That sounds like a low-hanging fruit. > > Could you elaborate more since you seem to believe this is a "low-hanging > fruit"? > There are already resources in Debian by language. Some communities use > it more than others. So far I haven't seen anybody being pushed away to > ask a newbie development question in debian-devel-french@ or > debian-devel-spanish@.
At least for debian-devel-french@, I don't think that we advertise the possibility to ask questions there. > I expect it to be similar in other languages > mailing list. We have a few of them, see [1]. More list can be created if > a group ask the listmasters and our policy to create IRC channels is totally > non burocratic (As we have no policy). I'm not sure we need another list for that, given the low traffic (and spanish looks similar) > Mentoring works better when the mentor and the mentee are speaking in their > natives languages, but ultimately to participate in Debian people need a > minimal knowledge of written English... Sure, but making one's first steps in Debian is also very difficult. So I think that every possible way to simplify that first step is a good thing. So, if I'm not elected, I will probably: - see if it's considered OK to direct french contributors to debian-devel-french@ (I guess it will be OK) - see if a few french contributors besides me would agree to answer questions on IRC, and create #-mentors-fr if that's the case (#-devel-fr is quite active, so it's better not to add more "noise" there) - advertise this (blog, packaging tutorial, etc.) - provide feedback to the project after a few weeks/months, so that others can possibly make the same move This sounds like a rather simple step to make, hence my "low-hanging fruit" qualifier. Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
