Hi Folks,
Personally I think Carl's idea is a good one, as I am new :) I was
involved with QPID and AMQP a few years ago and have only just come back
to the fold. I think having a "getting involved - etiquette" section is
a good idea. As has already been mentioned, there is a lot of latent
awareness about how to go about things, but as a new member of the
community it would certainly be of benefit to me to be able to read
about it!
cheers,
Sam.
Carl Trieloff wrote:
Robert Godfrey wrote:
2009/12/8 Rafael Schloming <rafa...@redhat.com>
A number of recent threads have made it clear that we have a fair
amount of
unspoken etiquette about how we do things around here, and the fact
that it
is unspoken can be confusing to newcomers and old-timers alike.
Looking at a few other apache project web sites, they often seem to
have a
page or two devoted to documenting their project etiquette. I think
this
would be a good thing for us to have as well, and I've taken the
liberty of
trying to seed this effort with some content.
I think there are some obvious places where it would make sense to
formalize some of this etiquette into some lightweight process, e.g.
having
maintainers files in svn, having a sandbox for new code
contributions, etc,
however this text is *not* intended to be a proposal for that sort
of thing,
merely an attempt to put into words what I believe most of us
consider to be
the status quo wrt the unspoken etiquette of the project.
Of course the problem with unspoken etiquette is that we might not
all have
the same concept of what it actually is, so please let me know if you
disagree with something I've written or you think something
important is
missing.
--Rafael
All this sounds very sensible to me; and there's nothing I can
immediately
think of that I would like to add.
Having this on a "Getting Involved" section of the website, along,
perhaps,
with a list of the "Big Ideas" people are currently working on would
seem to
make a lot of sense...
-- Rob
Should we also add a getting involved Etiquette section, i.e. if you
are new, how should I work with the team...
Carl.
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