This is something I'm going to jump on as soon as I can. It's a great way for me to be more productive and to contribute more since I haven't had time to for coding.
Thanks, David! On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 1:18 AM David Blevins <david.blev...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you're looking for ways to contribute, a very very ... very major way > is to help review PRs. > > We currently have 27 open PRs: > > - https://github.com/apache/tomee/pulls > > You do not need special permission, authority or to be someone of "high > regard" or any such nonsense to help review PRs. Your very first > contribution to the project could be to give another first contributor a > bit of positive or constructive feedback in their PR. > > In an ideal world, this is exactly what happens. > > Think of how excited you get when you file your PR. You may go back and > click reload on the page all day and for the next two days till eventually > you stop checking and just wait to be notified. > > You have the power to give other people that magical feeling of getting > quick feedback over their hard work. > > Let's imagine two kinds of contributor and ask ourselves which is the more > valuable person: > > - Jane has reviewed 10 PRs > - Joe has submitted 10 PRs > > Jane is hands down more valuable and I would vote her into the project as > committer far before Joe. I would do that even if Jane did not have one > commit of her own. > > Of course there are philosophical reasons such as Jane is showing she is > concerned for others, wants to help new people and is overall focused on > building the community around the project. She is putting others above > herself. > > But there is also math at play. For every Joe you need a Jane or PRs > don't get in. In practice, Janes are in very short supply. In our current > state, there are 27 Joes and very few Janes. > > If you want to have a major impact in just an hour or two a week, your > todo list is not JIRA, it's right here: > > - https://github.com/apache/tomee/pulls > > > -- > David Blevins > http://twitter.com/dblevins > http://www.tomitribe.com > > -- Richard Monson-Haefel https://twitter.com/rmonson https://www.linkedin.com/in/monsonhaefel/
