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commit 5be3ade929976a5aff573fda7f8dc1526aa81b8a Author: Rich Bowen <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Fri Sep 26 15:52:47 2025 -0400 Non-code contributions; A few TODO items. --- source/contributors/_index.md | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- source/contributors/mailing-lists.md | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/source/contributors/_index.md b/source/contributors/_index.md index 4ef81a6c..2dfdf4c7 100755 --- a/source/contributors/_index.md +++ b/source/contributors/_index.md @@ -50,11 +50,30 @@ reasonable first step towards contributing. Keep notes of that first user experience, as that is valuable information for the project, and might be a good place to start your contributions. -### The Code +### What can I contribute? -Most (not all) Apache projects have their code on -[GitHub](https://github.com/apache). Search for the project name in the -**apache** GitHub organization. +Most people's first thought when contributing to open source projects is +code. And, indeed, that's where most people get involved. Most (not all) +Apache projects have their code on [GitHub](https://github.com/apache). +Search for the project name in the **apache** GitHub organization. + +There are, however, many other areas where you can contribute to a +project. These include, but are not limited to: + +* Documentation +* Marketing and social media promotion +* Event planning +* Technical support on mailing lists and other forums +* Vendor/Sponsor relations +* Project management (organizing the next sprint or feature set, keeping + track of who is working on what, updating the roadmap) +* Community management + +Projects should identify, recruit for, and celebrate contributions in +all of these areas, and reward non-code contributors with the same +rights and privileges that they do for code contributors. + +**Being a committer is *not* just for code contributors!** ### Communication @@ -67,6 +86,15 @@ participate in current discussions, either by subscribing to the lists, or by using the [lists.apache.org][11] site directly. +<!-- + +TODO: + +All of this stuff about mailing lists should be in mailing-lists.md +rather than here. + +--> + #### Subscribe To subscribe (that is, to receive every message sent to the list via diff --git a/source/contributors/mailing-lists.md b/source/contributors/mailing-lists.md index 7a4e5f9e..dd84c57b 100644 --- a/source/contributors/mailing-lists.md +++ b/source/contributors/mailing-lists.md @@ -93,6 +93,16 @@ conversation is essential to collaboration. ASF mailing lists default to English, unless specified otherwise. +<!-- + +TODO: + +This stuff about configuring mailing lists should really be under +/committers rather than here, since you can't make any of these changes +until you're a committer. + +--> + ## Mailing list configuration Modern software development tools, including GitHub, your various ticket
