Reviving the patch pilot program

[Philipp Kewisch]

Hello Technical Board and Council,

continuing efforts to lower the barrier of entry and making contribution 
opportunities more meaningful I'd like us to consider reviving and 
iterating on the patch pilot program. I've put together an initial brief 
here for your reading leisure:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSgn4ln01g7qoFSI-xStQvki8yRn83wF4-rNW5zZxMHm-VhqMhl3SIAhMzHwtB8cAVhHiBOXMKXReGz/pub

I'd love to have the discussions around this in the open as much as is 
feasible. Before I make a discourse post I wanted to get some initial 
feedback from managers internally, as well as you all. Let me know if 
there are aspects of the proposal that are off or if there are other 
points that should change before I post this more broadly.

I'd also appreciate if we could identify at 1–2 point people from each 
group that would be involved as stakeholders and help drive the proposal 
forward.

Philipp

PS: As a quick aside mostly for the CC: I'm looking for ways to get the 
community involved much earlier while also making it simple for 
Canonical staff to participate. I'd like to have a synchronous 
communication channel where I can easily pull in people from both sides 
and coordinate ongoing discussion. Creating a temporary IRC channel for 
this project specifically makes it easy to rope in community folks, but 
might have a higher barrier of entry for staff. Using a Mattermost 
channel makes it fairly difficult to pull in community members. Using 
email or discourse completely might delay communications. Though, maybe 
I am overthinking it though and it turns out to be feasible to just get 
Canonical staff onto IRC? Let me know if you have thoughts or past 
experience on this.

-- 
Philipp Kewisch
Community Engineering Manager
Canonical <https://www.canonical.com>
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