On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Sagara Gunathunga < sagara.gunathu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi devs , > > As we can see number of new people start contributing to Axis2 project > we need to simplify and improve the contribution process. Since we > can't expect same set of developers to stay on the project forever we > should encourage new people to to contribute in order to keep healthy > project. Personally I fell still there are numbers of steps we can > introduce to this project to encourage new contributors. > > 1.) AFAIK at the moment we (committers) can assign JIRA issue to some > other committers only there is no way to assign JIRA issues to > contributors. As I remember in Woden and number of other Apache > projects provide this facility. IMO we need to remove this restriction > so that committers can assign issues to contributors too. I believe in > this way new contributors feel some strong ownership and kinda > relationship with the project. > +1. > > > 2.) Currently when ever new contributor ping to the dev list we ask to > go through JIRA page and pick a issue and start contribution. Some > people end up being active contributors but some of them select JIRA > issues those are not obvious to fix or there is no developer willing > to review those patches or no one here to provide proper guidance, in > all those cases final result is people get frustrated and stop > contribution. What I would like to suggest here is once the > committers feel a particular issue is easy to fix or if he know the > procedure (may be no time to fix it ) or if he willing to provide > guidelines / reviews to a contributor mention it in the JIRA issue > itself. we can use some kind of a label like > Contributor/Easy/QuickStart or something similar to that as an > indication so that new people can easily find those JIRA issues. > +1. Good idea. Anyway the success of this depends on how much time people have to update those jiras. > > 3.) We should create "How to contribute " page for the reference of > new contributors. For the moment we have number of nicely written > guides about developers ( release process , site building , mailing > etc ) that covers most part of details required to new contributors > too but IMO it much useful to have a separate page for new > contributors. > +1. thanks, Amila. > > > Any other suggestions ? or objections ? > > > If we can agree on above ( or more ? ) I'm happy to start this process. > > > Thanks ! > > -- > Sagara Gunathunga > > Blog - http://ssagara.blogspot.com > Web - http://people.apache.org/~sagara/ > LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/ssagara > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@axis.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@axis.apache.org > > -- Amila Suriarachchi WSO2 Inc. blog: http://amilachinthaka.blogspot.com/
