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authorValentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>2023-01-02 11:40:09 +0100
committerValentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>2023-02-24 09:50:06 +0100
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add objectives and tasks for Nix team
so far there were no even remotely measurable objectives, only a general purpose statement. this change is intended to focus the team's work on what I (and many others I talked to) perceive to be the main pain point in the development process. Co-authored-by: solene.rapenne@tweag.io
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## Motivation
-The goal of the team is to help other people to contribute to Nix.
+In order to attract more maintainers and thereby scale the development process to match user needs, the main goal of this team is to improve the Nix contributor experience.
+
+### Objectives
+
+- It is obvious what is worthwhile to work on.
+- It is easy to find the right place in the code to make a change.
+- It is clear what is expected of a pull request.
+- It is predictable how to get a change merged and released.
+
+### Tasks
+
+- Elaborate contribution guides and abide to them
+- Improve documentation targeted to contributors
+- Maintain the issue tracker and triage pull requests
+- Help competent contributors succeed with their pull requests
+- Ensure the required maintainer capacity for all of the above
## Members