Thanks Doug, I didn't know what caused the "Welcome New Contributor" thing show up in reviews, but that is exactly what I used to look for.
-amrith On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Doug Hellmann <d...@doughellmann.com> wrote: > Excerpts from Amrith Kumar's message of 2017-10-13 13:32:54 -0400: >> Flavio, >> >> Some months back I looked at a slide that Thierry showed at a meeting; >> it showed contributor statistics and it showed that there were a large >> number of contributors who made exactly 1 commit which sometimes got >> merged, but there was a huge drop off from 1 commit to 2 commits! >> >> So I got to thinking about what could cause that and how one could get >> to the second commit (once you're hooked, you are hooked!). >> >> To that end, I tried to give priority to first time committers; if I >> saw a commit that said "New Contributor", I try to not only thank them >> for it, but also be much more responsive. I hope that helped at least >> one contributor go from 1st commit to 2nd commit. > > This is a great point. It's easy to find new contributors because > we have a bot that drops a welcome message on their patch, and > gerrit can query by reviewer: > > https://review.openstack.org/#/q/reviewer:%22Welcome%252C+new+contributor!%22+status:open,n,z > >> >> Other than that, working (with Dims) trying to take up a number of >> initiatives that bring new contributors to OpenStack including >> >> - speaking to university students (a project I proposed a while back >> called OpenStack in the classroom[1]) >> - making presentations at Summit(s) meetups, and any other place which >> will have us to tell people about OpenStack[2]. >> - participate (as a mentor) in the OpenStack mentorship program, the >> Women of OpenStack program, and a myriad of other non-OpenStack >> community development programs >> >> Shameless plug for Dims & my presentation at Summit in Sydney about >> contributing to OpenStack [2]. >> >> Thanks for the question! >> >> -amrith >> >> [1] http://openstack.markmail.org/thread/qadfotwkoj6alivj >> [2] >> https://www.openstack.org/summit/sydney-2017/summit-schedule/events/19116/getting-started-with-contributing-to-openstack-dos-and-donts >> >> On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 8:45 AM, Flavio Percoco <fla...@redhat.com> wrote: >> > Greetings, >> > >> > Some of you, TC candidates, expressed concerns about diversity and >> > inclusiveness >> > (or inclusivity, depending on your taste) in your candidacy. I believe this >> > is a >> > broad, and some times ill-used, topic so, I'd like to know, from y'all, how >> > you >> > think we could make our community more inclusive. What areas would you >> > improve >> > first? >> > >> > Thank you, >> > Flavio >> > >> > -- >> > @flaper87 >> > Flavio Percoco >> > >> > __________________________________________________________________________ >> > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) >> > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe >> > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> > >> > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
