Hello All, >>> 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 doing one of the activities on >>> our "bottleneck" list? I am currently focusing on a few other things I really want to do and would not be able to take up time consuming activity like reviewing pull requests. I would be happy to help with moderating lists though. Regards, Vishwas > On Aug 31, 2017, at 9:05 AM, Gaurav Saini <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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*
