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.