Petr Boy came to Fedora documentation the way many contributors do, by seeing a gap and deciding to fill it. As a researcher, writing is his daily work. When he looked at how he could meaningfully contribute to Fedora, documentation was the obvious answer. He started with Fedora Core 1, stepped away, and returned in 2020 when both the Server Working Group and the Docs Team were being revitalised at the same time. Since then, his focus has been on the “bigger-picture” content structure, readability, consistency, and inspiring others to get involved. His first Flock was in Cork, Ireland in…
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Can we have a ICS or something to add to the calendar? or even a link to the flock calendar?
I’ll be watching on YouTube.
I wanted to say this is not a Fedora only issue but one thing that stops contributors is attitude from some people.
I had joined the Quality Team, even checked with them on Matrix whether or not a particular issue I was having was a bug and where it should be filed.
I was told to file under a certain category, do I did and the response from one of the devs was basically, “It has nothing to do with this” in a way that I found confrontational and not really recognising that someone was contributing with a bug report even if it was filed under the wrong thing (even though I had checked.)
I guess devs are not communicators and I don’t know how one fixes this across the Open Source world, especially when the main issue is that people are stretched so they don’t have time to babysit new contributors. But it did make me basically not want to triage that issue further. Usually I follow through bugs I report and test them as soon as the dev responds with a fix, but that interaction was discouraging.
I don’t know if we need some sort of buddy system or just have a few people who take care of the new contributors, check in with them and communicate feedback to existing contributors if stuff like this happens, but I feel there is a risk then that those mentors who might get the flak instead.
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I would recommend doing a more thorough review, you got @pboy 's name wrong in the first paragraph
Petr Boy came to Fedora documentation the way many contributors do, by seeing a gap and deciding to fill it.
Sorry Peter!
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I’m sorry to hear about your experience. That’s not OK. If you felt it wasn’t in line with expected behaviour as codified in the Fedora code of conduct, please do flag it to moderators or even the CoC committee.
It’s ok to not be a good communicator, but we still have to follow the CoC. That’s not optional.
We do have this place, please come speak to us!
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Do come and talk to us in Join, even if we ultimately cant resolve any particular issue, we can show you that a lot of us do communicate well, and welcome you to many parts of the project.
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