Hi Lakmal, Yes, I am working on the developers getting started guide.
My current focus is on automating the setup of up a runtime Stratos environment for developers to try Stratos. As part of my automation scripts, the developer can with one command turn the runtime environment into a Stratos development environment consisting of ubuntu lxde desktop and eclipse with Stratos source imported. The goal of this setup is to make it as easy as possible for new developers to get started with Stratos. When the environment scripts are ready, I will finish the Developer Getting Started Guide. The getting started guide is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GiEsqVbqhp0rBqf6LhpNqB57TVxIApNg9o1Sk0zI9Oo The setup scripts (runtime and development environments) are here: https://github.com/snowch/devcloud-script Many thanks, Chris On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Lakmal Warusawithana <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > 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/ > > -- Check out my professional profile and connect with me on LinkedIn. http://lnkd.in/cw5k69
