Ed and vishwas, I've filed an Infra ticket to request moderation privileges for both of you.
Here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-15089 Moderation is done via a klugy email interface. Instructions on how to use ezmlm to moderate once you have those privileges can be found here: https://reference.apache.org/pmc/ml Regards, Myrle On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 6:43 PM, vishwas <[email protected]> wrote: > 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* >
