The motivation for contributing opensource work sometimes affected by projects' popularity. And open source as a whole is hugely impacted by public cloud companies since their profit-driven mindset. One of the biggest public cloud provider even discourages employees from contributing to open source by asking them filling documents, going through reviews and signing agreements before you can do that under their employment. Past Redis license change story also reveals some difficulties that open source community is facing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19221754
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 12:03 PM Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: > I don’t think it is realistic, unfortunately. If you remember our OWNERS > initiative, which failed, the idea there was for various functional areas > or components there would in effect be a mentor, someone you could > at-mention for advice and review. This failed because if this isn’t your > full time paid profession you can’t devote the necessary time. Life and day > job intervene. Furthermore the available volunteer bandwidth of this > community is in long term decline. The pendulum can shift back (viz > zookeeper) but the trend as of today is similar to tends in the ASF > incubator: seems like in the past there were more people around with more > available time. There might be good intentions but little is more > demoralizing than being ignored by someone expected to be a mentor, only > because that mentor has severe time constraints due to day job or personal > life. > > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 10:48 AM Misty Linville <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Another open source project I’m on is exploring the idea of a mentoring > > rotation where each mentor serves for a week and especially looks out for > > and provides practical assistance and review to new contributors for that > > week, on an office-hours type of basis. Many hands make light work. WDYT? > > I’d say that this type of mentoring, if done well, would be another way > to > > put one on the road to recognition for leadership within the project. > > > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 9:45 AM Tak-Lon (Stephen) Wu <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > > > > > +1 one for the mentoring if one existing member who knows the feature > > plan > > > and is willing to create tasks for pickup. > > > > > > my current barrier is to find a continuous topic/component and focus on > > it, > > > but I'm a bit too random with my approach. > > > > > > Currently, not sure this is the right way, I lookup JIRAs by filtering > > tags > > > (e.g. BUG) with priority and created dates to find > > > newly reported issues and somehow didn't know which JIRA should be > > resolved > > > next release. meanwhile, I may miss > > > older JIRA which potentially is critical (probably the longer it has no > > one > > > look at it, should it considered as less critical?). > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Stephen > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 12:12 AM Artem Ervits <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Would be great to have mentors. Ted used to review my patches and > > provide > > > > feedback on timely basis, understand everyone is busy but would be > nice > > > to > > > > have a point person (per feature, bug, branch, module, etc). I have > > > cycles > > > > to burn but currently it feels a bit overwhelming as community may > feel > > > > there's a certain level of familiarity with the process necessary. > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 4:59 AM Misty Linville <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > #1 this is difficult code. That’s probably the one we can’t > surmount > > > but > > > > I > > > > > wanted to put it out there. > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 5:03 PM Sean Busbey <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I have my own opinions, obvs. But I'm curious what other folks > > think > > > > are > > > > > > the biggest impediments to new contributors? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Best regards, > Andrew > > Words like orphans lost among the crosstalk, meaning torn from truth's > decrepit hands > - A23, Crosstalk >
