On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote:
> heya folks, > > I'm considering putting up a help wanted[1] for JIRA maintenance work. > Solicitations made so far for help seem to be pretty effective, better than I would have supposed. > Before I do so, I wanted to confirm a few things. > > 1) resolve / set fix / etc rights for new community members > > I know that I got full admin access to JIRA before I was made a > committer (thanks again stack!), but IIRC I had already been making > some contributions at the time. Before I try to draw in new community > members with this kind of work, do folks have any level of interaction > they'd prefer before I grant rights beyond what what give > "contributors" right now? > > Blanket rights to someone who just showed up is probably not prudent. Some interaction is required to build a little trust and to ensure our history doesn't get wiped whether by accident or otherwise is necessary. At your discretion Sean. > 2) JIRA gardening as contributions > > I've been a big advocate of "more than code contributions" counting. I > also do a fair bit of JIRA work, so it's something that I value having > more folks working on. That said, I don't want to get new folks in > the community working on this only to run into problems getting them > recognition in the larger project. So I'd just like to make sure that > if we had new folks who were consistently doing the work of keeping > our JIRA listings accurate and useful that someone other than me would > consider voting in favor of committer rights. (preferably a couple of > folks :) ) > > > I can see this as a, unorthodox path to committership. St.Ack > [1]: https://helpwanted.apache.org/ >
