Re: Proposed: (Bi?)monthly committer newsletter

2017-04-03 Thread Sharan Foga
Hi Rich I think it might be good to tie this in with some of the feedback from the committer survey. Whenever people receive an email, the first questions tend to be why am I getting this and why should I read it? So tying this into something that came from the committers themselves could help.

Re: Proposed: (Bi?)monthly committer newsletter

2017-04-03 Thread Rich Bowen
On Apr 2, 2017 02:04, "Isabel Drost-Fromm" wrote: First of all, I love the idea and content of this newsletter. However if the goal is to reach committers that are less and less engaging, I wonder how many ppl we will actually reach by sending it to a list nobody can unsubscribe from. My reaction

Getting into GsoC

2017-04-03 Thread Nitish Sainani
Hello, this is Nitish and I am a B.tech first year computer science student and I know the c /c++ language should I submit a proposal to you? Thanks

Re: Proposed: (Bi?)monthly committer newsletter

2017-04-03 Thread Rich Bowen
On Apr 3, 2017 02:51, "Richard Eckart de Castilho" wrote: > On 31.03.2017, at 15:07, Rich Bowen wrote: > > As you probably know, I have been pondering a (bi?)monthly community > newsletter for some time. Since it is quite some effort to produce one, it might be a good idea to also get some idea

Re: Proposed: (Bi?)monthly committer newsletter

2017-04-03 Thread Rich Bowen
Brilliant suggestion. Will do. On Apr 3, 2017 06:10, "Sharan Foga" wrote: Hi Rich I think it might be good to tie this in with some of the feedback from the committer survey. Whenever people receive an email, the first questions tend to be why am I getting this and why should I read it? So tyin

Re: Proposed: (Bi?)monthly committer newsletter

2017-04-03 Thread Rich Bowen
On Apr 3, 2017 02:51, "Richard Eckart de Castilho" wrote: > On 31.03.2017, at 15:07, Rich Bowen wrote: > > As you probably know, I have been pondering a (bi?)monthly community > newsletter for some time. In an email-based newsletter, you could include a web-bug. Not sure if such a web-bug would

Re: Proposed: (Bi?)monthly committer newsletter

2017-04-03 Thread sebb
On 3 April 2017 at 07:51, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote: > Btw. apparently comitters@a.o is not an archived mailing list but an alias > [1]. As the issue implies, the mails do exist in the original mail archives: https://mail-search.apache.org/members/private-arch/committers/ That issue is

Re: Vetoes for New Committers??

2017-04-03 Thread Joseph Schaefer
Trust me niclas, you would be singing a very different tune if you believed something like that were happening in a project you were working on and you were a member of the minority powerless to put a halt to it. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 29, 2017, at 4:16 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > > Wel

Re: Vetoes for New Committers??

2017-04-03 Thread Pierre Smits
That borders on FUD. Op di 4 apr. 2017 om 05:03 schreef Joseph Schaefer > Trust me niclas, you would be singing a very different tune if you > believed something like that were happening in a project you were working > on and you were a member of the minority powerless to put a halt to it. > > S

Re: Vetoes for New Committers??

2017-04-03 Thread Ted Dunning
I hear it as the voice of (occasionally bitter) experience. It could easily be my own voice as well. I have found in my own limited experience that communities who pay attention to minority voices to be far better at producing real consensus. I have also found that people with a majority-rules opi

Re: Proposed: (Bi?)monthly committer newsletter

2017-04-03 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > ...As a small way to address this, my desire is to send a newsletter to > committers every two months.. I like the idea (especially if you're doing the work ;-) and suggest publishing these newsletters under https://blogs.apache.org/comdev/ in