openSUSE ALP: Use the forums to Call for Volunteers?
Hence my view that the only way forward is really finding a core group willing to architect and get building this new distro from the ground up, rather than just assuming we can continue as we used to in the past. -- Richard Brown Distributions Architect
et al: Not sure how many folks are both on this list and on the forums, I personally haven't checked this out to see; but there are a lot of very smart folks who are posting assistance on the forums that might be a valuable pool of help. Like in all things in life, if you ask people, "Will you volunteer for a lot of work for no compensation," very few respond. But, if a problem is posted on the forums, people are apparently willing to help out with "solving the puzzle" of it. Or, has a post been made with the proposal for the new ALPine distro and asking for experienced insight into it??? Possibly a slightly larger group could be found?? F AKA "Team Towel Guy" . . . go team, have a clean towel . . . .
On 2023-05-08 16:32, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
Hence my view that the only way forward is really finding a core group willing to architect and get building this new distro from the ground up, rather than just assuming we can continue as we used to in the past. -- Richard Brown Distributions Architect
et al:
Not sure how many folks are both on this list and on the forums, I personally haven't checked this out to see; but there are a lot of very smart folks who are posting assistance on the forums that might be a valuable pool of help.
Like in all things in life, if you ask people, "Will you volunteer for a lot of work for no compensation," very few respond. But, if a problem is posted on the forums, people are apparently willing to help out with "solving the puzzle" of it.
Or, has a post been made with the proposal for the new ALPine distro and asking for experienced insight into it??? Possibly a slightly larger group could be found??
F AKA "Team Towel Guy" . . . go team, have a clean towel . . . .
This mailinglist is THE mailinglist for discussion of developing openSUSE distributions I have no problems with people linking to the mail archive [1] and encouraging more people to join the discussion here But I don't have the bandwidth to monitor and engage fully with a dozen different conversations on a dozen different platforms I tried it in this case for Reddit and AFAIK it hasn't gained us a single additional volunteer..so I see no reason to spread myself even thinner by adding our user forums into the mix also. [1] https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/N... -- Richard Brown Distributions Architect SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Frankenstraße 146, D-90461 Nuremberg, Germany (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Managing Directors/Geschäftsführer: Ivo Totev, Andrew Myers, Andrew McDonald, Martje Boudien Moerman
On Monday 2023-05-08 16:32, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
Hence my view that the only way forward is really finding a core group willing to architect and get building this new distro from the ground up, rather than just assuming we can continue as we used to in the past.
Like in all things in life, if you ask people, "Will you volunteer for a lot of work for no compensation," very few respond. But, if a problem is posted on the forums, people are apparently willing to help out with "solving the puzzle" of it.
It is true that people love puzzle solving. But not everything is puzzles. Some things are *well-understood* and just need churn. Package updates fall in that category for example.
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