Clarifying as I think Isabel was too gentle :) Before coming to Apache, there had been much talk of redoing the website, perhaps via a dayjob contribution. I double checked at ApacheCon with Sally that that was sane (corporate contribution of a website design).
The evolution of that conversation is that Seb & Dom (as part of their dayjob at Amazon) have a proposal for a new look and feel. They would like feedback. There is no pPMC activity here Dom/Seb, this is you personally proposing a website redesign to the MXNet PPMC, of which you are not a part. Currently the MXNet committers/PPMC are very strongly code-focused. As an Amazon employee, I love that we (Amazon) have non-coders interested in working on the project. I dream of a day where project managers, web designers, tech editors, paper writing scientists and evangelists are able to be committers too. We (Apache) want that - Apache committers should be a diverse bunch, not just coders. This kind of pain point is going to happen. Apache have a general too-code-focused culture, which we (Apache) acknowledge. Until we (MXNet) are more open to adding non-coding committers (in deed as well as word), trying to contribute outside of coding is like trying to move a Snorlax[1]. Hen 1 - https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Snorlax_(Pok%C3%A9mon) On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Dominic Divakaruni < dominic.divakar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think this: >The pPMC would like to update the website. > > is just to say that, the project's mentors reached out to the folks who > helped with the infra migration with a reminder about the website updates > that are needed. > > I don't believe that a decision was made out of sight. Though I do fully > agree that this reminder and the follow on website design should have been > discussed on dev@ first. > > > On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 11:48 PM, Isabel Drost-Fromm <isa...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > First of all, great to read there are people with interest and time to > > update the website. > > > > > > Am 12. September 2017 19:00:21 MESZ schrieb Seb Kiureghian < > > sebou...@gmail.com>: > > >The pPMC would like to update the website. > > > > This wording is worrying to me. It sounds like a decision was made out of > > sight of the public project community, that is out of sight of dev@ > > > > The only way to grow your community and make it possible for outsiders is > > to have conversations leading up to decisions like these here on dev@. > > Maybe I missed those, happy for any pointers. > > > > > > Isabel > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Gerät mit K-9 Mail gesendet. > > > > > > -- > > > Dominic Divakaruni > 206.475.9200 Cell >
