Good points, Dirkjan. +1. While I'm aware about each new commiters prehistory, I think it would be good to have their announcements a bit more personified.
-- ,,,^..^,,, On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 11:31 AM, 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
