+1 moving these comdev tools to Apache.
Willem Jiang On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 8:53 PM Rich Bowen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, folks, > > With my board term over, I have some ideas of things I want to do around > ComDev, and more time to do them. I’ve been tinkering with some small tools > to do basic activity discovery around ASF projects, and I wanted to make this > available to a larger audience. > > Those things are here - https://github.com/rbowen/comdev - (well, some of > them) and I’d like to propose that we create a top-level > https://github.com/apache/comdev and move this there. > > There’s two sets of tools here. There’s the asf-highlights directory (naming > is, of course, open for suggestions) which is for us to ask “what’s happening > at the ASF that we can promote?”. The project-activity directory is more > focused on a PMC asking “what’s happening in my project?” - perhaps as part > of writing one’s quarterly report, or looking for things to promote, and may > also be just for general project health/metrics tools. > > Note that there’s some overlap with Tooling, and these are not intended to be > quite as full featured as those. But what I’d like to do, over time, is > encourage projects to be introspective at times other than board report time. > I have, for example, a tool that looks at git repos, mailing lists, and > roster information, and asks “Who should I nominate next to be a committer?” > (It’s not in here yet because it relies on some internal AWS AI tooling, and > I’m hoping to remove that dependency.) > > I’d also like to have the Issues feature turned on for this proposed repo, as > a place to track contribution/collaboration opportunities. As I said above, I > have some things I'd like to do around ComDev in the coming year, and they > all require help, and I want a place to request this help, and track progress. > > Setting up the repo is self-service, and Drew has offered to do that part. > I’m just asking for as simple +1/-1 here on the idea. Thanks! > > — > Rich Bowen > [email protected] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
