I guess I am too late here, but fwiw, I agree strongly with Rich's comment. I would much rather see the checklisty stuff incorporated into either the use cases or the main doc somewhere and not presented as "things 'we' are looking for". I do not like at all the statement in the intro to the new doc, "However, having an idea of what red flags we're looking for in a project can be a helpful way to start looking for places to mentor, and sharpen, our projects."
That is absolutely the wrong message to give. Who is "we"? This kind of thing sets the tone of the working group as some kind of external policing / inspecting function. That will not help. What *will help* is people showing up, listening and coming up with useful suggestions for how to solve problems that communities are facing. In some cases, that may actually mean helping them explain why their way of doing things is perfectly fine. I was shocked, for example, by "too many release candidates" on the list of "red flags." That is ridiculous, IMO, and nobody's business but the community. A sharpener certainly might help share experience about how other projects have handled packaging, testing and deployment issues, but just jumping in because a few releases have burned through a few RC numbers makes zero sense. Phil On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 7:39 AM Rich Bowen (Jira) <j...@apache.org> wrote: > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-543?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=17817400#comment-17817400 > ] > > Rich Bowen commented on COMDEV-543: > ----------------------------------- > > Added to doc in https://github.com/apache/comdev-working-groups/pull/2 > > > Sharpeners use cases > > -------------------- > > > > Key: COMDEV-543 > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-543 > > Project: Community Development > > Issue Type: Improvement > > Components: Comdev > > Reporter: Phil Steitz > > Priority: Minor > > Attachments: use-cases.md > > > > > > Brain dump of ideas for sharpeners use cases > > > > -- > This message was sent by Atlassian Jira > (v8.20.10#820010) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > >
