Hello Myrle, Sorry for delayed reply. Below are my answers
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Myrle Krantz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Fineracters, > > There are 9 PMC members who have not responded (8 if we excuse > Nazeer). As a reminder, the questions are: > > 1.) Are you doing something that only you are doing, and that you > believe should be shared more widely? > No > 2.) What are the reasons why you aren't merging PRs or helping out > with releases? > > My main expertise was on frontend mainly, but recently after looking in Fineract CN I am really interested to get started with Fineract CN. Also, I saw that new Fineract CN has a frontend project based on typescript, material so I am really to interested to contribute on that right now also. Thanks Gaurav > I would appreciate a response. You might also want to say, "I'm too > busy right now", or "I'm waiting for Fineract CN", or "I've lost > confidence that the project can help me achieve my goals". If that's > the case, then it is important information too. > > Thanks, > Myrle Krantz > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Myrle Krantz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > We have an awesome community. In particular, we've been very good at > > responding to people's request for help getting Fineract working for > > their use cases. But we also have some things we need to work on. > > > > Specifically we have several bottlenecks in our community: > > > > 1.) Only Nazeer is merging PR's. > > 2.) Only Nazeer is serving as a release manager. > > 3.) Only Myrle is moderating the lists (apart from the mentors who > > will eventually step out). > > > > This is called "having a truck factor of one", because if a truck hits > > one of us (or if we win the lottery and decide never to do anything > > for Fineract again), then the entire project would fail (1). This is > > already causing us problems in some areas: for example our PR's are > > backed up > > > > I'm not writing this to lecture anyone. I know there are reasons for > > the way things are. That doesn't mean we should just accept it > > though. > > > > Let's start by improving our understanding of the problem. Would each > > committer please say: > > 1.) Are you doing something that only you are doing, and that you > > believe should be shared more widely? > > 2.) What are the reasons why you aren't doing one of the activities on > > our "bottleneck" list? > > > > > > I'll start: > > 1.) List moderation. > > 2.) I'm not merging PR's because I'm not sufficiently familiar with > > the current generation Fineract code to feel comfortable evaluating > > those PR's. I'm not serving as a release manager, because I don't > > have enough insight into when we are release-ready, and because there > > are several pieces of technical knowledge I'd need to acquire to be a > > release manager which I don't yet have. For these reasons, I've > > chosen to focus my energies on Fineract CN instead. > > > > Best Regards, > > Myrle Krantz > > > > P.S. After we have a list of causes, I'll initiate a round of > > discussion about how we can resolve the causes. > > > > 1.) http://www.agileadvice.com/2005/05/15/agilemanagement/truck-factor/ > -- Regards, *Gaurav Saini*
