Jira please :)
> On Sep 16, 2019, at 4:44 PM, Ray Ma <d...@rayma.me> wrote:
>
> Also, just for the sake of consistency, should patches to the website
> be submitted via the Mail Diff (or Quick Mail) feature of the CMS, or
> submitted to an issue via Jira?
>
> Ray
>
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 8:38 AM Ray Ma <d...@rayma.me> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>>
