Excerpts from Thierry Carrez's message of 2017-10-24 13:47:32 +0200: > Colleen Murphy wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 9:00 AM, Diana Clarke > > <diana.joan.cla...@gmail.com <mailto:diana.joan.cla...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > Congrats on being elected to the TC, Colleen! > > > > You mentioned earlier in this thread that, "a major problem in the > > tech world is not just attracting underrepresented contributors, but > > retaining them". > > > > I'm curious if the TC has considered polling the people that have left > > OpenStack for their experiences on this front. > > > > Something along the lines of: > > > > "I see you contributed 20 patches in the last cycle, but haven't > > contributed recently, why did you stop contributing?". > > > > Given the recent layoffs, I suspect many of the responses will be > > predicable, but you might find some worthwhile nuggets there > > nonetheless. > > > > I'm not aware of such an initiative so far but I do think it would be > > useful, and perhaps something we can partner with the foundation on. > > Kind of parallel to the polling idea: > > John Dickinson has some interesting scripts that he runs to detect > deviation from a past contribution pattern (like someone who used to > contribute a few patches per cycle but did not contribute anything over > the past cycle, or someone who used to contribute a handful of patches > per month who did not send a single patch over the past month). Once > oddities in the contribution pattern are detected, he would contact the > person to ask if anything happened or changed that made them stop > contributing. > > John would probably describe it better than I did. I like that it's not > just quantitative but more around deviation from an established > contribution pattern, which lets him spot issues earlier. > > Note that this sort of analysis works well when combined with personal > outreach, which works better at project team level... If done at > OpenStack level you would likely have more difficulty making it feel > personal (if I end up reaching out to a Tacker dev that stopped > contributing, it won't be as effective as if the Tacker PTL did the > outreach). One thing we could do would be to productize those tools and > make them available to a wider number of people. >
Yes, any tools that we can use to produce real data to inform an outreach program would be useful. Doug __________________________________________________________________________ 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