Hi Rich, Thanks for bringing this up; I've been thinking the same thing for a while. I agree with your points. I'm sharing my thoughts based on what you suggested.
1. We can use LLM AI tools to answer the user's first question and help them find the tasks they may be interested in. 2. It could be hard for us to find less-welcoming projects without actual data support. We may develop some dashboards to help us identify the community health problem. Just my two cents ：） Willem Jiang Twitter: willemjiang Weibo: 姜宁willem On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 12:53 AM Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > Proposed: A formal working group around how we welcome new folks in a > consistent and helpful manner. > > We get people on this list (and on every dev@ and user@ list at the > foundation) asking how to get engaged. We almost always give them unhelpful > answers, and send them off to go figure it out on their own. > > The Welcome WG would write documentation, and process, around welcoming these > new folks, and shepherding them towards engagement. This would include, but > not be limited to: > > * Guiding projects towards the incubator. This includes the “why would you > want to be at Apache? Why would you *NOT* fit at Apache?” documentation that > we really don’t have yet. > * Guiding brand-new contributors towards how, and where, to contribute. This > may include working with some of our more welcoming projects to figure out > best practice, and our less-welcoming projects to figure out why they are and > help them fix that. > * Working with second-time contributors to encourage best practice. (See > https://mikemcquaid.com/stop-mentoring-first-time-contributors/ for thoughts > on first- vs second-time contributors) > * Crafting boilerplate answers to send to folks who show up asking for help > getting involved, so that we don’t continue this practice of unhelpful “go > figure it out on your own” responses. > * Maybe work on some kind of a badging program (See > https://badges.fedoraproject.org/ if you don’t know what I mean by that) to > incentivize and gamify community engagement, for reasons that I would love to > talk much more about, but are beyond the scope of this proposal. > > What do y’all think? > > — > Rich Bowen > rbo...@rcbowen.com > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
