What do you want MOTU to be in Q, R and S?

[Daniel Holbach]

Hello everybody,

thanks Andrew for reviving the thread again. :)

On 04.05.2012 02:05, Stefano Rivera wrote:
> I agree with that reasoning. I don't think we have much of a team
> identity, rather than just being a bunch of people who care about
> unseeded.

I agree with this sentiment. What MOTU I feel lacks most is a sense of
team spirit. Sure, MOTU consists of a lot of people, who know and value
each other, some of you found friends here. Still a general sense of
joint achievement is missing.


> It feels wrong to have to attract members by quilting them into helping
> us, or make helping us a pre-requisite for them getting things done.
> But I don't know how we should attract the type of people who enjoy
> archive gardening.

Maybe we should set ourselves some goals again, and track their progress
in MOTU meetings. We haven't done any of those meetings in a long while
and I feel they might help a lot to agree on things we want to do
together. It also wouldn't limit the chance to discuss and plan to one
UDS session you might or might not make it to. :-)

When I mention 'goals' above, I'm referring to things like bringing down
the number of open *verse merges, handling the libxyz transition, and
maybe teaming up with the Debian QA team to sort out some of the more
pressing issues identified by lintian.

One piece of feedback we have received in the Dev Advisory Team was that
newcomers are looking for specific targets to work on. To me it sounds
like working together on some of these initiatives would kill a couple
of birds with one stone. From an organisational POV this shouldn't be
too much work either.


> I think the problem is that we aren't getting that many new faces.
> Even when do get people saying they want to help, most of the time, we
> don't have a good project for them. Without a personal motivation to get
> a new package in or something like that, I think it's harder to find the
> energy to get into it.

I could imagine that more social cohesion and joint achievements can go
a long way here.

Have a great day,
 Daniel

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