Hi Ray: This post is a change of topic from the current thread concerning ways of making a more stable version of MSYS2 available to users, but it is strongly motivated by that thread.
Right now the total number of admins and developers for the MSYS2 core team is only 6 according to <https://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/_members/>, and I believe an important issue for this project is it needs to recruit more members of that core team. That expansion of the core team would spread the load so none of you burn out and also allow dealing with substantial project improvements (such as making a more stable version of MSYS2 available to users) which are bound to require a large amount of extra work by the core team. You obviously cannot solve the relatively small size of your core team in an instant, but to make a start on that you need to evaluate potential members of that core team. That can be done in a large variety of ways (most of which you may already be doing). But one additional way of doing that is to encourage external volunteers with more mundane potentially crowd-sourced tasks that simultaneuously help out MSYS2 and also give the current core team a chance to evaluate who would be useful as additional members of your core team. Anyhow, I think it would be potentially a large help to the MSYS2 project in the long term if you were to write up a wiki page outlining how external volunteers could help out with the project. My apologies in advance if such page already exists, and I have just not been able to find it. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Msys2-users mailing list Msys2-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users
