On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 11:49 -0700, Stefano Maffulli wrote: > Another idea that Tom suggested is to use gerrit automation to send back > to first time committers something in addition to the normal 'your patch > is waiting for review' message. The message could be something like: > > > thank you for your first contribution to OpenStack. Your patch will > > now be tested automatically by OpenStack testing frameworks and once > > the automatic tests pass, it will be reviewed by other friendly > > developers. They will give you comments and may require you to refine > > it. > > > > Nobody gets his patch approved at first try so don't be concerned > > when someone will require you to do more iterations. > > > > Patches usually take 3 to 7 days to be approved so be patient and be > > available on IRC to ask and answer questions about your work. The > > more you participate in the community the more rewarding it is for > > you. You may also notice that the more you get to know people and get > > to be known, the faster your patches will be reviewed and eventually > > approved. Get to know others and be known by doing code reviews: > > anybody can and should do it. ...
Very nicely done. I really like it. Thanks, Mark. > PS I put the text on > https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/welcome-new-committers for refinements. > _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev