Thank you, Matt.
I personally find the distinction between committer and contributor
confusing. To add to my point, now that I read the description carefully,
I meant to ask to be included to the committer pool.
One unfortunate aspect of being "just" a contributor is that, it turns
out, I can't assign issues to myself, I can't close issues if I'm not the
owner of the issue and probably other little annoying things like these
ones that I haven't discovered yet. This may be a side-effect of how
rights can be specified in GitHub. I understand the need of some "control"
but it shouldn't come at the expense of productivity, IMO.
Another suboptimal aspect is that now information is scattered across too
many places (confluence wiki, github, list a, list b, etc.). See note
about productivity. I wonder if there is a way to keep it simple(r).
Thank you,
Ioana
Matt Rutkowski/Austin/IBM@IBMUS wrote on 01/26/2017 02:16:17 PM:
> From: Matt Rutkowski/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
> To: [email protected]
> Date: 01/26/2017 02:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Hi, My name is...
>
> Welcome Ioana!
>
> You are already (by default) a contributor! We also welcome any
discussion
> you wish to engage here on anything dev. related including suggestions
for
> new feature designs for any part of the project.
>
> Also, please see our new Wiki with some info on contributors/committers
> (just drafted yesterday and open for comments):
>
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OPENWHISK/OpenWhisk+Project+Wiki
>
> It includes the basics of what it takes to become a committer. I would
be
> grateful if you let me know if it is clear enough and provide feedback.
>
> Kind regards,
> Matt
>
>
>
> From: Ioana Baldini/Watson/IBM@IBMUS
> To: [email protected]
> Date: 01/26/2017 12:58 PM
> Subject: Hi, My name is...
>
>
>
> Greetings!
>
> My name is Ioana Baldini. I am a Research Staff Member at IBM
> Research. I've been contributing to the OpenWhisk project before it
> became an open source project. Last year, my main contribution was the
> implementation of sequences as first-class entities in our
> system. Sequences is one of the features our users like the most.
>
> In addition to my work in serverless and cloud infrastructure, I
> collaborate with researchers from the Data science department from IBM
> Research on projects related to Data Science for Social Good. We
> partner with not-for-profit organizations, NGOs and social enterprises
> to attack problems with social impact.
>
> I'm originally from Romania, grew up on the Black Sea coast and did my
> undergrad in Computer Science and Engineering at Poli in Bucharest
> (official name University Politehnica of Bucharest). I've been in
> North America for the last 15 years, first in Canada for my Masters
> and PhD, and then in the US, interning with Intel, IBM Research and
> now working full-time at IBM Research.
>
> OpenWhisk is my first open source project. I would like to be promoted
> to a contributor so I can fully participate in this project. Bonus: I
> will improve ASF's diversity numbers :)
>
> Looking forward to be working with everyone and be part of the
> serverless revolution!
>
> Cheers,
> Ioana
>
> PS:
> Congrats (and thank you!) to ASF for conducting the diversity survey and
> making the results publicly available! Perhaps next time around, the
> survey could include numbers on contributors vs. committers. Curios if
> they are any different.
>
>
>
>
>
