Hi Jacopo,
I stumbled upon this by chance today.
Finally we ended up with a list of Contributors in OFBADMIN space which something completely different. Because people in this list are only those who
requested an access to the wiki.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/Apache+OFBiz+Contributors
I'd not say though that this initiative was useless. I can testify that people reviews and tests helped me to have more and better commits, and I hope
this will continue (those who did will recognize themselves).
Now I'm not sure we will ever be able to keep a record of those efforts and
maintain a page in wiki for that...
Jacques
Le 14/05/2013 09:53, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit :
Thanks for the initiative Jacques.
Let's see how this experiment goes and then let's try to fine tune it; if it is
successful we could even set up a page in the Wiki with a list of top
contributors (people that have provided the biggest number of
votes/reviews/testing), this could be a nice way to keep record of their effort
and it would also be a measure of their contributions useful when the PMC will
discuss to invite new committers.
Jacopo
On May 12, 2013, at 12:33 PM, Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com>
wrote:
Hi dear Apache OFBiz users,
We have currently around 850 opened Jira issues, and within, 134 issues with
patches provided. Obviously we, committers, can't cope alone with the
contribution activity (remember, it's benevolent work).
Some time ago we had a dicussion between PMC (Project Management Committee
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/JoB2) members about how to improve the
quality and quantity of patches committed.
We want to ask you, users, to help test, review and vote on pending issues,
notably those with patches provided.
We even discussed a voting/vetting process with a number of votes threshold. We
would not review or commit issues that don't have more than a threshold number
of votes and maybe at least one person other than the person who opened the
issue who claims to have reviewed the code and tested it. I suggest this would
not be a rule, a but a rule of thumb to be adjusted by experience. We could
test it during a period and then fix the threshold (number of votes) and maybe
other rules like diversity (sometimes you would notice votes from persons of
the same company than the contributor), etc.
Hopefully this would give contributors an incentive to solicit help from others
in the community, leading to more community interaction and along with it more
useful expectations, and eventually better quality and quantity of patches
committed.
We could begin this process today with
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-4472
Thanks for your attention, and, as ever, all suggestions are welcome.
Jacques
