There is the voting feature on JIRA. We could try to encourage more use
of that? Make a filter that orders Accumulo issues by votes?
Andrew Wells wrote:
A thread like this makes me want to contribute more. Maybe a mailing list
that people can fire off Jira tickets that have a dire need. Like a bounty
list
On Jan 13, 2015 8:06 PM, "Mike Drob"<[email protected]> wrote:
A reoccurring issue that I've seen is that our discussions tend to go deep
rather than broad. This isn't to say that high discussion volume is bad,
but it certainly can be intimidating, and not just for newcomers. I think
this is a result of topic A leading to topic B leading to topic C, and so
on, all in the same thread. When there are already 30 messages in a thread,
it becomes nigh inaccessible to folks that have not been following it
already.
I would like to see a greater effort to split discussions when there is a
change in topic. This is useful both for the participants' sanity, as well
as future searchers trawling through list archives.
Mike
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Josh Elser<[email protected]> wrote:
I meant to send this out closer to the new year (to ride on the new year
resolution stereotype), but I slacked. Forgive me.
As should be aware by those paying attention, we have had very little
growth within the project over the past 6-9 months. We've had our normal
spattering of contributions, a few from some repeat people, but I don't
think we've grown as much as we could.
I wanted to see if anyone has any suggestions on what we could try to do
better in the coming year to help more people get involved with the
project. I don't want this to turn into a "we do X wrong" discussion, so
please try to stay positive and include suggestion(s) for every problem
presented when possible.
Also, everyone should feel welcome to participate in the discussion here.
If you fall into the "bucket" described, I'd love to hear from you. If
anyone doesn't want to publicly respond, please feel free to email me
privately and I'll anonymously post to the list on your behalf.
Some ideas to start off discussion:
* Help reduce barrier to entry for new developers
- Ensure imple/easy-to-process instructions for getting and building
code in common environments
- Instructions on running tests and reporting issues
* More high-level examples
- Maybe we start too deep in distributed-systems land and we scare away
devs who think they "don't know enough to help"
- Recording "newbie" tickets and providing adequate information for
anyone to come along and try to take it on
- Encourage/help/promote "concrete" ideas/code in the project.
Something
that is more tangible for devs to wrap their head around (also can help
with adoption from new users)
* Better documentation and "marketing"
- We do "ok" with the occasional blog post, and the user manual is
usually thorough, but we can obviously do better.
- Can we create more "literature" to encourage more users and devs to
get involved, trying to lower the barrier to entry?
Thanks all.
