+1 Great idea Aviem, thanks for bringing this subject to the mailing list. I agree in particular with the freeing JIRA part, I think we shouldn’t keep assigned JIRAs that are things that we don’t expect to solve in the next weeks. (note the exception for this are the long features).
I would add two more issues. 4. We need to react and review code faster for new contributors and belp them as much as we can. I know that this one implies extra work but I have seen many times people asking for reviews days after they create a PR and even worse, people who have not been able to merge their changes because they were dealing with a long code review and then a different PR already included changes that fixed the same issue. 5. We should try to keep the number of open pull requests low. Our average number of open Pull Requests is continuously increasing (current average is 70), There are some PRs in open discussion but some are clearly stagnated , maybe we should have like a deadline, like if no discussions or improvements were done in the last month we must close them and if there is still interest well they will be re-opened in that case. The ‘good news’ is that we have 350 unassigned unresolved issues that anyone can take this is a good improvement but I agree that we can do better. Ismaël On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 6:32 AM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net> wrote: > Hi, > > as we already discussed about that, +1. > > I would also propose to not assign new Jira automatically: now, the Jira is > automatically assigned to the Jira component leader. > > Regards > JB > > > On 04/22/2017 04:31 PM, Aviem Zur wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I wanted to start a discussion about actions we can take to encourage more >> contributions to the project. >> >> A few points I've been thinking of: >> >> 1. Have people unassign themselves from issues they're not actively >> working >> on. >> 2. Have the community engage more in triage, improving tickets >> descriptions >> and raising concerns. >> 3. Clean house - apply (2) to currently open issues (over 800). Perhaps >> some can be closed. >> >> Thoughts? Ideas? >> > > -- > Jean-Baptiste Onofré > jbono...@apache.org > http://blog.nanthrax.net > Talend - http://www.talend.com
