On 12/06/18 11:44 +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote:
Hi!
We had a decently-sized thread on how to better track organizational
diversity, which I think would benefit from a summary.
The issue is that the current method (which uses a formula to apply
single-vendor and diverse-affiliation tags) is not working so well
anymore, with lots of low-activity projects quickly flapping between
states.
I wonder if there's a succint way to present the history rather than
just the most recent tag value. As a deployer I can then tell the
difference between a project that consistently lacks
diverse-affiliation and a project that occasionally or only recently
lacks diverse-affiliation.
Suggestions included:
- Drop tags, write a regular report instead that can account for the
subtlety of each situation (ttx). One issue here is that it's
obviously a lot more work than the current situation.
- Creating a "low-activity" tag that would clearly exempt some teams
from diversity tagging (mnaser). One issue is that this tag may drive
contributors away from those teams.
- Drop existing tags, and replace them by voluntary tagging on how
organizationally-diverse core reviewing is in the team (zaneb). This
suggestion triggered a sort of side thread on whether this is actually
a current practice. It appears that vertical, vendor-sensitive teams
are more likely to adopt such (generally unwritten) rule than
horizontal teams where hats are much more invisible.
One important thing to remember is that the diversity tags are
supposed to inform deployers, so that they can make informed choices
on which component they are comfortable to deploy. So whatever we come
up with, it needs to be useful information for deployers, not just a
badge of honor for developers, or a statement of team internal policy.
Thoughts on those suggestions? Other suggestions?
--
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
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