We have lot of positive feedback on this proposal, I'm not sure whether we need to have a separate voting thread for this ? if not I will start work on item number 2 and 3 on my original mail.
It is required to do some JIRA changes to support item-1 not sure Andreas can do this or need to contact infra folks. Andreas can you confirm this ? Thanks ! On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Pulasthi Supun Wickramasinghe < pulasthi...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 for all three > > This will indeed be a huge help to new contributors to get a quick start. > > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Shameera Rathnayaka < > shameerai...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> +1 for all three ideas. >> >> 2nd idea will be helpful a lot to new contributors. In my experience i had >> lot of troubles in choosing an issue to contribute. >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Pushpalanka Jayawardhana < >> pushpalankaj...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Devs, >>> >>> All the three ideas are so encouraging us as new contributors. >>> >>> Having someone willing to provide guidelines will be a great help and >>> will increase the effectiveness and confidence to resolve an issue. >>> >>> I started to contribute recently and there were few pages that were >>> really helpful. I wrote a blog post on Documentation-patch >>> submission<http://pushpalankajaya.blogspot.com/2011/09/documentation-patch-submission-for.html>with >>> what I learnt trying that. A 'How to contribute' guide targeting new >>> contributors will be much helpful, that will avoid following wrong paths get >>> frustrated. >>> >>> Thank you for pointing out these ideas. >>> Hoping to experience these improvements soon. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Krishantha Manjula Rathnayaka < >>> krishantha...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Deves, >>>> >>>> I’m really happy about "How to contribute " guidance idea and the idea >>>> of Committers’ guidance towards the new comers. >>>> >>>> Hope that we will able to benefit with these soon. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Keen to hear from you >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Thank You! >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Kind Regards, >>>> >>>> \Krishantha. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Amila Suriarachchi < >>>> amilasuriarach...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 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/ >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> * >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Krishantha Rathnayake >>>> SOFTWARE ENGINEER >>>> Service & Asset | Research & Development >>>> >>>> 501 Galle Road, Colombo 00600 , SRI LANKA >>>> Tel +94 78 389 58 07. 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