> https://boxofclue.com/doap_projects.txt by sending each project a
Eat own dog food ;-) https://paste.apache.org/ Gary On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 9:03 AM <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > Hey, ComDev folks, > > Sebb sent the below to board@ earlier today, and I took it upon myself > to ping some of these projects, in the hopes that we can get better > data about our projects. > > It's bugged me for a while how many of our projects have meaningless > descriptions, and it's been on my list for a long time to go around and > encourage/help these projects to write better descriptions, so that > beginners can have some notion of what they are looking at. > > Sebb's email looks like a really great place to start. > > So, I'm working through this list: > https://boxofclue.com/doap_projects.txt by sending each project a > reminder of the process, and the reasons it matters (See > https://hackmd.io/AtAuQ60JRbWcH8-OsCHccQ for my template). I am not > planning to do all of these at once, so if someone else wanted to pick > up at some other point in the list and work through, that would be fine > - just report back so we don't gang up on any PMC. > > *Hopefuly* we'll either start seeing some new DOAP files, or we'll see > some feedback here on this list about problems encountered. > > Thanks, again, Sebb, for your attention to detail. > > --Rich > > > On Tue, 2023-09-05 at 00:19 +0100, sebb wrote: > > I've done a check of the PMCs that have no active DOAPs, as listed by > > projects.apache.org. > > > > There are 59 of them [1], which is about 28% of the total. > > > > That means a lot of ASF PMCs are not fully represented in the project > > listings. > > > > The DOAPs provide various useful data about ASF projects, and the > > project listings may help PMCs attract contributors who are looking > > for a project to support, so it is a shame that a large proportion of > > PMCs are not represented. > > > > Maybe it would be a good idea to remind these PMCs that DOAPs can be > > helpful to the health of their project? > > > > There is a guide [2] for creating DOAPs. > > > > Sebb > > [1] Search the page > > https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?committee for the string > > '(0)' > > [2] https://projects.apache.org/create.html > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
