Thank you for the initiative and detailed explanation Sharan. I've added myself and encourage all our committers to do the same.
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Sharan Foga <sha...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Everyone > > I'm bringing up a topic that has been raised in the past regarding > committer mentoring. [1][2][3]. > > As project we don't have any on-boarding process to help new committers > or support existing ones. Sometimes people assume that by the time you > become a committer then you should know how everything works! (and that > isn't always the case. ) > > In the past year with the re-factoring, the framework, plugins, gradle etc > we have a lot of changes happening and people may be a little overwhelmed > about how they can continue to contribute. Getting feedback and sharing > knowledge helps make people more confident in their way of working and > contributions, and the end result is better code which is a great thing for > the project. > > So I would like invite all of our committers (and also any interested > contributors) to a Skype call to about mentoring and the support that you > can get from our more experienced project committers. The call will be > approximately 1 hour and will include an opportunity to ask questions. > > If you'd like to attend then please add your details, location and > timezone to the table at the bottom of the following wiki page so that I > can find a suitable time for everyone. > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/OFBiz+Mentors > > I really think that mentoring will help empower committers more, > standardise work and coding practices and generally improve our working > relationships. > > As always, feedback welcome and please don't forget to add your name if > you'd like to attend. > > Thanks > Sharan > > [1] https://s.apache.org/FzI0 > [2] https://s.apache.org/60t1 > [3] https://s.apache.org/GWtv >
