Re: Getting a project back on track

2024-03-29 Thread Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Hi Rich That's a fair comment. We can also take the example of Livy that we were able to "restart" thanks to new contributors. Call For Action can also work (as we did for a few projects), especially when the project is in use. Regards JB On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 2:35 PM Rich Bowen wrote: > >

Re: Getting a project back on track

2024-03-29 Thread Rich Bowen
Thanks, folks. I’ve opened a PR with the feedback from this thread - https://github.com/apache/comdev-site/pull/174 - and would appreciate a review, and if you think it passes muster, a merge. Thanks. > On Mar 29, 2024, at 9:35 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > > This week, I’ve been approached by

Re: Getting a project back on track

2024-03-29 Thread tison
A common mistake for leveraging the power of community is to make it complicated ”what is suitable for newcomers". Working in many OSS projects, I practice and encourage other maintainers to practice: Do not think "community" as an external resource and you need to feed them. We're part of the

Re: Getting a project back on track

2024-03-29 Thread tison
> * Roadmap - > a sense of new things that they could help build > a sense the project is still going someplace +1 This is what I advise the StreamPark podling every time I meet its "original author". He shares the challenges that he "cannot find many peers to collaborate with." I told him,

Re: Getting a project back on track

2024-03-29 Thread Shane Curcuru
Rich Bowen wrote on 3/29/24 9:35 AM: This week, I’ve been approached by someone concerned about one of our projects, and looking for a “how to get back on track” document, with concrete, actionable steps that a project can take when it is struggling to find contributors. This seems like a

Re: Getting a project back on track

2024-03-29 Thread tison
This is why we emphasize community over code. And Kvrocks can be a valuable example that although quite a few of its "original authors" faded away due to many reasons, we keep invite new members and due to its product value (a well-known software's alternative, named Redis), so it can be

Re: Getting a project back on track

2024-03-29 Thread tison
I can share two examples: * Livy podling. Users take over the community. * Ambari. Vendors/Individual Devs revived the community. But both of them don't seem to be quite active (again). Best, tison. Michael Sokolov 于2024年3月29日周五 22:21写道: > I guess it depends on what the problem with the

Re: Getting a project back on track

2024-03-29 Thread Rich Bowen
On Mar 29, 2024, at 10:20 AM, Michael Sokolov wrote: > > I guess it depends on what the problem with the project is. It seems > implicit in your ideas that the project has lost momentum; nobody is > contributing to it or maintaining it actively? But I just want to > point out there can be other

Re: Getting a project back on track

2024-03-29 Thread Michael Sokolov
I guess it depends on what the problem with the project is. It seems implicit in your ideas that the project has lost momentum; nobody is contributing to it or maintaining it actively? But I just want to point out there can be other problems that might need correction with different solutions (too