Contributor bootcamps can really help new people like me. On Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 5:08 PM Jeremy Hanna <jeremy.hanna1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One thing we've done in the past is contributor bootcamps along with the > the new contributor guide and the LHF complexity tickets. Unfortunately, I > don't know that the contributor bootcamps were ever recorded. > Presentations were done to introduce people to the codebase generally (I > think Gary did this at one point) as well as specific parts of the > codebase, such as compaction. What if we broke up the codebase into > categories and people could volunteer to do a short introduction to that > part of the codebase in the form of a video screenshare. I don't think > this would take the place of mentoring someone, but if we had introductions > to different parts of the codebase, I think it would lower the bar for > interested contributors and scale the existing group more easily. Besides > the codebase itself, we could also introduce things like CI practices or > testing or documentation. > > > On Apr 24, 2021, at 12:49 AM, Benjamin Lerer <ble...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > Hi Everybody,The Apache Cassandra project always had some issues to > > attract and retain new contributors. I think it would be great to change > > this.According to the "How to Attract New Contributors" blog post ( > > https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-attract-new-contributors) having a > good > > onboarding process is a critical part. How to contribute should be > obvious > > and contributing should be as easy as possible for all the different > types > > of contributions: code, documentation, web-site or help with our CI > > infrastructure.I would love to hear about your ideas on how we can > improve > > things.If you are new in the community, do not hesitate to share your > > experience and your suggestions on what we can do to make it easier for > you > > to contribute. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org > >
