On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Sagara Gunathunga < sagara.gunathu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > > +1 > 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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