Re: Contacting Java packaging team

Mechtilde <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Jun 2024 07:03:03 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.java
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Hello,


Am 16.06.24 um 22:40 schrieb Emmanuel Bourg:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> Le 12/06/2024 à 17:27, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> 
>> I'd like to officially contact all our teams to learn about potential
>> issues that might affect your work.  I would love to learn how you
>> organise / share your workload.  If you do some regular meetings - be it
>> on IRC, video conference or whatever I'm interested in joining one of
>> your next meetings.
> 
> That's a good idea, thank you.
> 
>> I have some specific questions to the Java packaging team.
>>
>>    - Do you feel good when doing your work in Java packaging team?
> 
> Absolutely

A little bit more help for newcommers is appreciate
> 
>>    - Do you consider the workload of your team equally shared amongst its
>>      members?
> 
> No but that's not an issue, everyone scratches the itches he wants.

    <nitpicking> (s)he </nitpicking>

> 
>>    - Do you have some strategy to gather new contributors for your team?
> 
> Not really.

I think that is a problem not only in this team but here too

> 
>>    - In my packaging work I frequently contacted Java packaging team and
>>      usually got help very quickly - thanks a lot for this.  The only
>>      thing I was not happy about is the fact that the team decided to 
>> make
>>      the usage of Salsa CI extra hard.  I've contacted the Salsa CI team
>>      before and explicitly asked about this policy.  They do not 
>> understand
>>      and recommend to run Salsa CI as default but by no means even hide
>>      the button to switch it on.  Would you mind changing your policy 
>> about
>>      this?
> 
> There is no policy regarding Salsa CI in the Java Team, anyone who 
> wishes to use it is free to do so. Personally, I do not because it 
> doesn't add value to my workflow. I'm also not a fan of the IRC spam 
> induced, and in times of energy sobriety I feel that's a non-essential 
> tool we can do without.
> 
>>    - Can I do anything for you?
> 
> Just keep the good work :)
> 
> 
> Emmanuel Bourg
> 

Kind regards

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Mechtilde Stehmann
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