So Isabel, are you saying that if we publish a clearer TODO list or contributions needed material we might get more contribution there?
One thing that I like from other projects is to make a list of low-hanging fruit issues or easy contributions that newcomers can pick to get familiar with the project, especially in projects like MXNet in which some contributions might require significant ramp up time, technical and mathematical skills or domain knowledge. Pedro. On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 3:06 AM Isabel Drost-Fromm <isa...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On 28/09/18 11:27, kellen sunderland wrote: > > I'd love to see some more > > sustained contribution from other open source communities to help us out > in > > this area > > That's not exactly the model I have seen to work. What I have seen works > really well at other projects is pulling users in as committers in a > scratch your own itch kind of way. For that to work you need to make it > clear what contributions you need, you need to make time to coach people > to become developers, you need to make your users accustomed to the way > you work as early as possible. It also helps to ask users for > contributions and offer mentoring help from your side along the way. > > I know that this is tedious work that needs a lot of motivating people, > mentoring people, explaining to people, however it makes for a > sustainable community of people that do the work out of self interest. > > > http://blog.isabel-drost.de/posts/open-development-and-inner-source-for-fun-and-profit.html > > > Isabel >
