Hello folks, we've been hearing a lot about the incredible growth of the OpenStack community but we don't hear much about the incredible amount of pressure that comes with such growth. One huge problem that growth brings with is that new comers have not had time to assimilate the culture of OpenStack community. If you look at the stats and notice that only a small percentage of the original developers is still committing code [1].
This is translating in more and more people (tens per week) getting closer to OpenStack and being greeted in ways that can be too easily misunderstood. We've already introduced friendly measures to gerrit so that the first time one submits a change for review is greeted with a nice email. We're also starting a new program to teach newcomers how to be a better upstream contributor. I think these are only partial measures and we all as a community need to collaborate on being better at dealing with our growth. I think we have a nice problem (growth is good) and we should address it before it gets too big and unmanageable . I have filed this session for the Design Summit and I sincerely hope we'll find time to discuss more together in Atlanta[2]: http://summit.openstack.org/cfp/details/171 Ideally I would like to have in the same room to discuss people who have had bad/good experiences with their first commits, people who still haven't committed the code they wanted to commit, those afraid of -2 and those who love them, those that made grandiose plans and merged and those whose plans were squashed... And I would like to have all PTLs there too. What do you think? Best regards, Stef [1] http://blog.bitergia.com/2014/03/24/measuring-demographics-opensatck-case-study/ [2] http://www.openstack.org/blog/2014/03/openstack-upstream-training-in-atlanta/ -- Ask and answer questions on https://ask.openstack.org _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev