On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Enis Söztutar <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would also add a couple of things: > > - General evangelism about the project for increasing user / developer > interest. Submit talks to apachecon, blog post, cross-post to zk mailing > lists, etc. > - Create a label for "newbie" issues, and mention this in "How to start > Curator development" page. Add a link to the jira search for the issues > labeled "newbie". In HBase, this proved useful to referring newcomers a > list of smaller issues to pick from. > - If an apache project depends on Curator as a vital component, then the > developers there will begin to report bugs or add new features that is > required for them. > > Enis > > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Luciano Resende <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Jordan Zimmerman <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > Curator needs more active committers. Please don't take this as a > > complaint > > > against the current committers, I realize that everyone has other > > > priorities. This email is meant to open a discussion on how to get more > > > active committers for Curator so that it doesn't totally rely on me. > I've > > > been extremely busy lately and haven't had much time for OSS projects. > > The > > > good news is that there are a lot of great patches coming in. But, that > > > still means I have to manage them. > > > > > > I'd appreciate any thoughts. > > > > > > -Jordan > > > > > > > 1) Mentor the folks providing patches to become committers > > 2) Work on a roadmap on the dev list, leave open jiras for roadmap tasks > > 3) Encourage others to respond to dev list questions (by not jumping to > it > > very quickly as well) > > > All good points indeed, another item to consider is participation in ApacheCon, met ups (e.g. together with Zookeeper), and other community activities such as Google Summer of Code. -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
