I've been asked to forward https://mail-search.apache.org/members/private-arch/board/201905.mbox/%3c15597a51-68b3-494d-84bc-f94fe63e8...@www.fastmail.com%3E here (with permission). I _think_ it hasn't been forwarded yet, but apologies on my behalf if it's a duplicate.
[[[ Indeed, there are two concerns: #1, be welcoming towards anyone who chose to participate; #2, minimize the number of prospective participants who commit a false negative in their "Shall I participate?" decision. They are not the same, though they are related. --- Random idea: Can we do something like the "CoC contacts" but for people who feel uncomfortable joining a community? For example, some sort of way to pair people with one-on-one mentors? Or, to scale better, set up a *privately-archived* how-can-i-h...@apache.org mailing list, where people who want to join but are reluctant to can contact us? http://community.apache.org/mentorprogrammeapplication.html doesn't quite fit the bill, IMO, for two reasons: it uses a public mailing list and requires proposing a weeks-sized "project", whereas new contributors typically get started with fixing typos or minor bugs. ]]]
