On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 4:08 PM Dan Čermák <dan.cermak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Ankur, > > Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Hi folks, > > > > The packaging team is generally quite stretched, and we frankly need > > more people helping us out. > > > > The main issue with newcomers taking on packaging is that the learning > > curve here is much more technical then a lot of other areas in Fedora. > > So, while it is still expected that folks read the docs and learn things > > themselves, perhaps we could be more active in helping them? > > That is true, getting into packaging is not easy at all. > > Besides improving existing docs, how about having a individual packagers > helping out newcomers in 1:1 chats, e.g. on IRC or Jitsi? > +1 on the individual participation for mentoring. My difficulties are specific and typically I find a helpful hint in the classroom content, but then it moves in an abstract way and I am lost in trying to follow bugs upstream and matching the speed of my colleagues who are much better at packaging who just take over the duties and leave me with nothing to do. > > > > We've had rpm packaging classroom sessions in the past. Are any folks > > interested in restarting these? Maybe a different SIG could do a session > > each month to help newcomers get started with packaging their tools? > > Sponsors, what do you think? > > > > -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
