Weex has been incubating at ASF since 2016-06-30, but the community is still lacking activity, documents and tools are still not user-friendly or easy-to-use. We have to say that, Weex isn't doing well in the community, so I conceived a plan to improve them.
I summarized two main problems of Weex community: (1) The quality of documents and tools. (2) Information asymmetry. For the (1) problem, Weex's documents are outdated and not accurate enough. There is no other way, we have to review or even rewrite them. We can arrange 1or 2 months time to do that together. It should be a one-off task if we really write them well. Moreover, I suggest allowing readers to rate each document and rewrite most low-rate document every (one or two) week. As for the tools, we have three of them: the online editor (dotwe.org), the playground app, and the command line toolkit. But they are too simple and not stable enough. We should improve them as an integrated product, make it easy-to-use and stable. For the (2) problem, the main reason is Weex contributors don't like to share their ideas and what they are actually doing. The community can't see any clear development progress except those unreadable commit logs. And worse, we haven't given timely feedback to the issues and feature requests, we just ignored them actually, which will disappoint the community. To solve it, I think we should migrate the workflow to the mailing list. Assign specific contributors to be responsible for managing community affairs in turn, until every core members know how it works and can handle those affairs on their own initiative. In summary, the key points are as follows: 1. Share ideas and development progress in the mailing list regularly. 2. Manage community affairs (issues, podling report, etc) in turn. 3. Update the structure of the website and review/rewrite all documents. 4. Rewrite most low-rate document every week. 5. Refactor the online editor, playground app, toolkit to offer consistent and stable service. 6. Allow community developers to explore and publish tutorials or examples efficiently. I encourage all contributors to take part in it. Let's make Weex much better and build a healthy community. Best Regards, Hanks Zhang
