Hello team, this is a follow up on "Improving visibility between maintainers and end-users?" previously posted on opensuse-project@ https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2020-08/msg00140.html There was a continuation on the thread in the form of a Jitsi meeting: Meeting minutes: https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/ReleaseEngineering-28082020-users-maintainer... I did contact board representative to double-check whether this would be a topic for openSUSE Board, but the recommendation was to approach opensuse-factory@ instead. **I'd also like to know what would be the personal recommendation for the next steps of both candidates for the openSUSE Board since voting is still open.** The discussion identified two problems that we'd like to address: * I'm new to openSUSE and I want to help. What are the packages that currently need help and how can I start contributing? There is currently not a single source of truth for such information. - Neal mentioned that Fedora is trying to address the issue with some sort of Developer dashboard that displays over the health of packages where users can identify packages in a bad shape. - I did mention the current bug smashing effort which is still blocked on the agreed bug handling policy. https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/ReleaseEngineering-bug-smashing-ideas-202008... People could proactively come to a session (20 minutes twice a week) and volunteer to work on outstanding bugs. The second issue is related to the same problem which is the health of packages. * I'm an existing user and nobody is looking at my submit requests for specific packages. I can't be easily set as a maintainer as I'm not a maintainer of related devel project. I want to help but I'm stuck - How do we ensure that outstanding maintainership (either packages or devel projects) are processed? Can we gamify the topic to motivate people to actively contribute? E.g. Libreoffice Badges*? - Something like LibreOffice badges would also help with the recognition of people who participated in Leap releases or were highlighted as part of release retrospective. See my recent post on opensuse-marketing@ What are your thoughts? And who should be the owner of these two issues? [0] - https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/03/10/announcing-open-badges-f... -- Best regards Luboš Kocman Release Manager openSUSE Leap SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg Germany (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Managing Director: Felix Imendörffer N�����r��y隊Z)z{.���r�+�맲��r��z�^�ˬz��N�(�֜��^� ޭ隊Z)z{.���r�+��0�����Ǩ�