Hi all, The official Druid Twitter account [1] is currently being managed by a small group of PMC members who have direct access to the account. This is causing a couple of issues.
- Only PMC members can access the account. However, most of the current PMC members are developers who primarily write codes rather than tweets. - Because non-PMC members cannot access the account, non-developers cannot make contributions using Twitter. - We currently cannot invite non-developers as PMC members since we are not acknowledging non-coding work. - Sharing the password among many people can cause security problems. To address these issues, I suggest making a new process for managing the Twitter account and tweets as below. 1. Sharing the account The official Druid Twitter account is owned by the PMC chair. Only the PMC chair can access the account directly. Other contributors, including PMCs, share the account using TweetDeck [2]. TweetDeck natively allows sharing the account among different people without sharing the password. TweetDeck also has embedded roles, i.e., "owner", "admin", and "contributor", that have different permissions. As these roles are similar to the Apache PMC members and committers, respectively, I suggest - The PMC chair invites PMC members as "admins" on TweetDeck. - The PMC chair or PMC members invite Committers as "contributors" on TweetDeck. - The "admins" and "contributors" can log in with their "own" account on TweetDeck and write tweets on behalf of the Druid account. See [3] to learn more details of the "owner", "admin", and "contributor" roles. 2. A new review process for tweets I suggest setting up a "review process" for tweets similar to what we do for the code review. Every tweet should go through the review process before being published. We should also provide guidelines for what "good" tweets are. Good tweets should promote only the Apache Druid brand. The review process should be done based on the guidelines. What should be in the review guidelines would be an interesting discussion. I would like to discuss it later if we all agree on having the review process. For the review tool, I suggest using GitHub. What I'm imagining is that contributors make Pull Requests for tweets they want to publish. We can organize tweets on GitHub in a structured way such as organizing based on the date when they are published. I am open to other suggestions as well if there are better alternatives. This review process can be also useful for acknowledging non-coding work. We can collect metrics to identify active contributors and give them credits. For example, contributors who write tweets can be invited as Apache committers based on their activity. 3. Metrics for the Druid account Some metrics such as impressions for the Druid account are available in [4]. This will be available only for the account owner which will be the PMC chair. I'm not sure if there are other services where you can see those metrics without accessing the account. Love to hear from others. Jihoon [1] https://twitter.com/druidio [2] https://tweetdeck.twitter.com [3] https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/tweetdeck-teams [4] https://analytics.twitter.com PS. I think this Twitter account issue is a small piece of the problem of non-coding work being not acknowledged. I will start another thread to discuss it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@druid.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@druid.apache.org
