Hi there Ray! Welcome to the STeVe community. Yes, it would be great to grow the external community and I agree that some of the Jira issues may be detrimental to that.
What Issues are ones that you'd like to work on? > On Sep 14, 2019, at 9:57 PM, Ray Ma <d...@rayma.me> wrote: > > Hi Apache STeVe, > > I'm Ray, new to the STeVe community. > > I've been browsing the ASF Projects Directory lately (mainly to find > something to do, I guess), and found STeVe. The project looks like it > could definitely use a hand > (No offense intended at all, you guys are providing great software for > free :-)). So naturally, I want to help out. > > Currently, there are issues on Jira that are preventing further > development and new developer engagement. Quite a few of them have > patches attached, like STEVE-30, have quite serious issues that would > discourage new developers from committing themselves to the Project. > If we could get those changes reviewed & merged, maybe the project > could attract new developers. I assume we'd want this to happen, since > this is a TLP that's plans to have a release next year (Info from the > STeVe board report at whimsy.a.o) and not just a service for ASF uses > only. > > If we could review the patches already available and merge/modify > them, we could also then get on to issues without such patches and get > rid of some of the years-old issues on Jira. > > I don't consider myself "senior" enough to review STeVe patches, since > I just showed up today. Many people in the OSS scene say that anyone > can review, but in reality, many don't due to fear of denial. > > I really didn't want to sound like an entitled arrogant idiot, but I > feel like I did anyhow. Sincere apologies if I sounded that way. I > just love the initiatives of this project and feel like I should help. > > Regards, > Ray Ma
