"I want to give back to Salt to make it better for both my org and others."

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👤 Role

• A Salt power user or someone looking to contribute to a major open source project.
• Generally approaches Salt from more of a DevOps or development perspective.

🧠 Skill levels

• Salt: Intermediate to advanced
• Operations: Beginner to advanced
• Development: Beginner to advanced

🎯 Goals

• Cares about Salt and wants to see it succeed.
• Exchanging ideas, news, and best practices with other members of the Salt Project community.
• Enjoys networking and developing new skills professionally.
• Wants to mentor others and collaborate.

🧭 Values

• Clear communication from Salt Project, the core development team, and its corporate sponsors.
• Timely responses to new issues and pull requests.
• Exchanging ideas, news, and best practices with other members of the Salt Project community.
• Having a voice and an active say in key decisions about Salt.
• Opportunities to meet other Salt users and developers.

😢 Pain points

• Understanding the contributing process, such as setting up a development environment and writing elegant code and effective tests.
• Keeping up with the standards and requirements set by the core Salt development team.
• Worries about the maintainability and future sustainability of Salt.

📌 Use cases

• Creating new Salt extensions and maintaining existing ones.
• Testing new release candidates.
• Finding bugs and opening issues.
• Joining and participating in Salt community events, such as Open Hour and working groups.

🥇 Competencies

• Windows systems administration skills.
• Linux/Unix administration skills.
• Ability to write and use shell scripts.
• Python and possibly additional languages (C#, Ruby, Pearl, and more).
• Version control tools like Git.
• Command line interfaces.