On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlo...@outlook.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I was reading over the TC IRC logs for this week (my weekly reading) and I > just wanted to let my thoughts and comments be known on: > > > http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tc/2015/tc.2015-09-08-20.01.log.html#l-309 > > I feel it's very important to send a positive note for new/upcoming > projects and libraries... (and for everyone to remember that most projects > do start off with a small set of backers). So I just wanted to try to > ensure that we send a positive note with any tag like this that gets > created and applied and that we all (especially the TC) really really > considers the negative connotations of applying that tag to a project (it > may effectively ~kill~ that project). > > I would really appreciate that instead of just applying this tag (or other > similarly named tag to projects) that instead the TC try to actually help > out projects with those potential tags in the first place (say perhaps by > actively listing projects that may need more contributors from a variety of > companies on the openstack blog under say a 'HELP WANTED' page or > something). I'd much rather have that vs. any said tags, because the latter > actually tries to help projects, vs just stamping them with a 'you are bad, > figure out how to fix yourself, because you are not diverse' tag. > > I believe it is the TC job (in part) to help make the community better, > and not via tags like this that IMHO actually make it worse; I really hope > that folks on the TC can look back at their own projects they may have > created and ask how would their own project have turned out if they were > stamped with a similar tag... > I agree with Josh and, furthermore, maybe a similar "warning" could be implicitly made by helping the community understand why the "diverse-affiliation" tag matters. If we (through education on tags in general) stated that the reason diverse-affiliation matters, amongst other things, is because it shows that the project can potentially survive a single contributor changing their involvement then wouldn't that achieve the same purpose of showing stability/mindshare/collaboration for projects with diverse-affiliation tag (versus those that don't have it) and make them more "preferred" in a sense? Thanks, Shamail > - Josh > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > -- Thanks, Shamail Tahir t: @ShamailXD tz: Eastern Time
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