Hi folks, I'm very late to this but I had this email somewhere in my stack of emails to check out.
I think this is a great idea and explaining the importance of voting on releases is also good for seasoned community members who didn't engage much in voting before. From my experience getting releases out can be very tiresome and slow if only a subset of active PMCs votes regularly. I left some small comments in the draft and I'm happy to help out at CoC Bratislava if needed but I won't be doing any narration ;). Kind regards Niklas On May 12, 2024, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > Hi, folks, > > > I had a thought, while boarding a flight this week, that *short* > instructional videos, in the spirit of the Delta pre-flight boarding > videos, would be a valuable educational asset as we attempt to be more > proactive in educating our PMCs (and our communities in general) about > how to work correctly in Apache projects. > > I have several such videos in mind, but I’m starting small. > > One of the topics that I’m interested in tackling is how, and perhaps > as importantly, why, to vote on a release. This is obviously already > covered by official policy - https://www.apache.org/legal/release- > policy.html - but we all know how often people read the documentation. > But a 2-minute video may get across a few important points. > > It is my goal to have a script written in the next few weeks, so that > at Community Over Code Bratislava I can capture most of the visuals, > and the narration, that I need to produce the video. The initial > script is here: > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1awCReR7WU3HuGULx2OD3TquGvt91c4P2UdA9LWNqQBk/edit > > I’ve shared it for comment, and would appreciate comments and > suggested edits. > > Please note that this is NOT intended to be comprehensive. It is > intended to communicate two or three simple points, and then point to > the docs. If we attempt to make it comprehensive, all we will > accomplish is that nobody will watch it. > > FYI, this is all part of a larger effort - > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CjOvEu2P6nBraUH_YvIV6ri- > 5OD9I3huM4AlqxXZQmY/edit?usp=sharing - to be more proactive, rather > than reactive (and scolding), about our rules. The rules exist for > specific reasons, but the way that we overwhelmingly communicate them, > as scolding when people fall short, has given us a terrible reputation > as only caring about rules and checkboxes. > > — > Rich Bowen > rbo...@rcbowen.com
