I really like this idea and think it may help break the ice for new people joining the community.
Adam Lerman On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 11:42 AM Mike Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > I like this idea. I think it would help encourage community interaction > and involvement. It would also help differentiate one off commits vs > developers interested in learning Accumulo and contributing. > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 11:39 AM Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Accumulo Devs, > > > > It occurs to me that with the increased use of GitHub PRs, we have a > > number of contributors which we do not have their contact email > > addresses, and who have never participated on the mailing lists. > > Perhaps they are not subscribed, or merely lurking. Some of these > > contributors have their email addresses in their git logs, but others > > might use the github noreply address instead. > > > > Lacking email addresses makes it hard to send invitations to these > > people to invite them to become committers/PMC members (if/when that > > time comes). > > > > To remedy this, I suggest that whenever we have a new active > > contributor submitting pull requests, we encourage them to introduce > > themselves on the developer mailing list, and to subscribe there. A > > simple comment on their PR like the following should be sufficient: > > "Hey there, thanks for contributing. If you plan to contribute > > regularly, please consider subscribing to the developer mailing list > > and introducing yourself to the other developers in the community." > > > > Does this sound like a good idea? Let me know what you think. > > > > Also, if there's anybody subscribed to this list who has been > > contributing and would like to introduce themselves, please consider > > doing so now. > > > > Christopher > > >
