Cool. Thanks for the info. On 28 November 2013 18:16, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > A nice idea might be for some of the committers to write a "Getting > Started" guide for contributors. You could point to self-contained > areas of the code, or bits that contributing to does not require too > much pre-existing knowledge. Another idea is to have a JIRA field > where you can flag the difficulty of the feature, so that people can > choose "easy", "medium", or "hard" depending on experience with the > codebase.
Has anything like this happened? On 23 March 2014 18:36, Lakmal Warusawithana <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Noah, > > > On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > >> For me, it comes down to this: has Stratos demonstrated that: >> >> a) It prioritises, and takes positive steps towards, attracting diverse >> contributions >> b) Regularly recognising merit where it exists >> >> I'd say that things are looking good and that I'm hopeful that in a few >> months this picture will look even better. But that right now, I wouldn't >> feel comfortable saying to the IPMC/board that yes, I am confident there >> are no issues. >> >> I've asked a few times now, but it seems like my questions are doing >> missing in the ether. Has the PMC implemented any of the suggestions from >> my November mails? What other positive steps forward have been taken to >> attract contribution? >> >> > If you carefully followed there are many. Few listed below, > > We have conducted 5 public hangouts since november, > > - 2013-11-14 Stratos Hangout 9 > - 2013-11-18 Stratos Hangout 10 > - 2013-12-03 Stratos Hangout 13 > - 2013-11-28 Stratos Hangout 12 > - 2013-11-25 Stratos Hangout 13 > > And lot of discussion in dev, how we can remove barriers to get more > contribution. And PMC and committers addressed and keep addressing on those > technical barriers. Answering almost all user questions. Provided guideline > for many GSoC proposals. Provided 5 developer previews since november. > (this is mainly targeting new devs to easy test and get hands on code). I > believed we have done good amount of work here. > > > >> On 23 March 2014 18:06, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On 23 March 2014 17:10, Lakmal Warusawithana <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> > All together we have done 9 votes, 6 for wso2 and 3 for non-wso2. (I >>>> know >>>> > some are still not announced but all vote are finalized, hence the >>>> current >>>> > status) >>>> >>>> Those numbers look much better. >>>> >>>> (Though I still don't think we should be talking about un-announced >>>> elections. These people may not accept yet, or the IPMC/board might >>>> reject the appointments, and that could be embarrassing for them. We >>>> have to be very circumspect about this sort of thing!) >>>> >>>> I still suspect we ought to wait a little while longer to see how this >>>> plays out. >>>> >>> >>> Its clear your view on this is to wait. That's fine - you are of course >>> entitled to your view. As a long time ASF Member I personally think your >>> view is rather narrow on this but obviously that's my biased view. >>> >>> According to http://incubator.apache.org/projects/stratos.html, there >>> are a bunch of mentors and of course we have Ross as the champion. What do >>> the rest of the mentors think? >>> >>> Champion rgardler Ross Gardler Mentors azeez Afkham Azeez . smarruSuresh >>> Marru.mpierceMarlon Pierce.chipchildersChip Childers.mnourMohammad >>> Nour.nslaterNoah Slater.antelderAnt Elder >>> In an earlier reply to this thread Chip pretty much said he feels we're >>> good to go forward. However I will not put words in anyone's email! In any >>> case we need to hear from the other 6 mentors too. >>> >>> Sanjiva. >>> -- >>> Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. >>> Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com/ >>> email: [email protected]; office: (+1 650 745 4499 | +94 11 214 5345) >>> x5700; cell: +94 77 787 6880 | +1 408 466 5099; voip: +1 650 265 8311 >>> blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/; twitter: @sanjiva >>> Lean . Enterprise . Middleware >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Noah Slater >> https://twitter.com/nslater >> >> > > > -- > Lakmal Warusawithana > Software Architect; WSO2 Inc. > Mobile : +94714289692 > Blog : http://lakmalsview.blogspot.com/ > > -- Noah Slater https://twitter.com/nslater
