Hi Jim, I'd like to contribute to STEVE-5 for a start, then help validate some of the patches attached to other issues.
In regards to STEVE-5, here's a brief idea of what we could include (A mix from a few other apache projects, pretty generic): Subscribe to the mailing lists, Forms of contribution (documentation, code, question-answering etc) Check the issue tracker for things to work on, A mention of meritocracy, (Potentially) links to committer resources provided by the ASF (Potentially) links to the use of the infra CMS for contributing to documentation, as I saw that STeVe's using it Regards, Ray On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 3:44 AM Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > > 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 >
