[Debian-salsa-ci] Salsa CI needs more contributors - please help share the load

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hi Arnaud, Huiying, Paride, Ahmed, Aayush and Aquila!

Do you have time to help with Salsa CI development in coming weeks?
We could use some helping hands now.


On Sat, 11 Oct 2025 at 20:35, Otto Kekäläinen <otto at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> In the past month, Salsa CI has had 25 new issues and 20 new merge
> requests filed. This is currently more than what one or two people can
> follow up on. If you use Salsa CI and want to see it thrive, now would
> be a good time to contribute by:
>
> - Debug issues to find the root cause, or otherwise participate in
> issue discussions
> - Review open Merge Requests to help get them polished and merged
> - Submit Merge Requests yourself to fix and improve things
>
> You don't need to be an expert to help. The more eyeballs, the better!
>
> Contributions to the CONTRIBUTING.md and STRUCTURE.md are also welcome
> to make it easier for new contributors to get productive quickly.
>
> Many of the new issues in the past month are due to regressions from
> the sbuild feature (MR!569) but it has already been a month since it
> got merged, so reverting it isn't a viable option. The best thing
> right now is to get all hands on deck and fix all the edge cases, so
> we get Salsa CI in a fully working condition again.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> - Otto