Hey Dirkjan, thanks a lot for your input. I personally think it's a great idea to add some info to the email for announcing a new committer. One other idea, and I would prefer this, is to ask the new committers to introduce them selfs after they have been announced. The ASF is doing this similarly with new members and it's a great way to get to know what people are doing. We would ask the committers in the done_committer email: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=couchdb-admin.git;a=blob_plain;f=email/done_committer.txt;hb=HEAD . Here is a very quick draft:
"The community would like to know a bit about you. Please write a short email to [which lists?] and introduce yourself. Here is a list with some points you could cover: * in which areas do you contribute to CouchDB * what are your interests in IT * anything else you would like the community know about you " The fact, that the announcement email is solely sent to dev@ is also not really clear to me (and I stumbled over it while sending the announcement of Javier ;-) ). I think this is done because dev@ is still the biggest list and also the main list (historically in all ASF projects). I suggest to change this because we do have committers not only (and also not at all) committing code. So - maybe I will be mobbed for this :) - why not sending to all lists? We do also announce new committers via the social media channels and also in the weekly news. But still - we should change the announcement recipients. All the best Andy On 7 November 2014 09:31, Dirkjan Ochtman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I wanted to suggest that, in the emails announcing new committers, one > or two sentences could describe in what area the new committer has > been contributing. The emails currently feel pretty bland to me, and > adding a little personal content couldn't hurt. Another thing to add > could be how they are related to CouchDB (e.g. if they're contributing > on behalf of their employer, if they're using CouchDB or a related > project for some interesting project of their own). > > Another, related problem with the emails that I see: though I'm no > longer closely tracking what's happening in the broader CouchDB > ecosystem, it feels weird to me that the announcements happen on the > dev@ list, when some of the committers being announced have ostensibly > never even sent a single email there. I don't really have a suggestion > for solving this. > > Cheers, > > Dirkjan > -- Andy Wenk Hamburg - Germany RockIt! GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc
