On 24 Oct 2017, at 4:47, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Colleen Murphy wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 9:00 AM, Diana Clarke >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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. That's a pretty good summary. > > 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. TBH I haven't used these tools that much for a while. Between an increased an increased personal reach-out ("Hey, what's going on?") and obvious stuff like companies pulling away from OpenStack contributions, there haven't been any surprises. Most of the active contributors have been pretty up-front about their ability (or lack thereof) to contribute. > > -- > Thierry Carrez (ttx) > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
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