Reviving the patch pilot program

[José Antonio Rey]

Hi all,

This looks good to me.

I'll spin up a thread with just CC to discuss the PS.

-J

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José Antonio Rey

On Mon, Aug 22, 2022, 13:51 Philipp Kewisch <philipp.kewisch at canonical.com>
wrote:

> 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
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