On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Andre Klapper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 07:17 +0200, Juan Rafael García Blanco wrote: >> Does Gnome keep track of which projects need developers, >> documentators, maintainers, ...? I mean something similar to gnu's >> savanah. > > Developers: Always needed. > Documentation: e.g. > https://wiki.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Tasks/ApplicationHelp > Maintainers: Not that I am aware of. ... > Thanks to Fred we do have https://people.gnome.org/~fpeters/health/ > which lists a "code activity score" (bus factor?) for each module - the > lower the number, the better. But I assume those numbers don't > automatically update and might be a bit dusty now. ...
The other side of it is knowing where maintainers are needed, and that requires knowing where the priority bugs are. > The question is who and how to turn that into something 'actionable'. > As far as I know nobody is 'proactively' reaching out (where?) to > maintainers on the leave (=making them realize) and finding potential > folks to take over. ... Seems like something the release team could be doing. It would require that we find the right formula for attracting maintainers, of course. Allan _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
