On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > > AFAIK, Chris started Getting Started guide, but not sure of the flag JIRAs. > > 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 > > -- Lakmal Warusawithana Software Architect; WSO2 Inc. Mobile : +94714289692 Blog : http://lakmalsview.blogspot.com/
