Excerpts from Amrith Kumar's message of 2017-10-13 13:32:54 -0400: > Flavio, > > Some months back I looked at a slide that Thierry showed at a meeting; > it showed contributor statistics and it showed that there were a large > number of contributors who made exactly 1 commit which sometimes got > merged, but there was a huge drop off from 1 commit to 2 commits! > > So I got to thinking about what could cause that and how one could get > to the second commit (once you're hooked, you are hooked!). > > To that end, I tried to give priority to first time committers; if I > saw a commit that said "New Contributor", I try to not only thank them > for it, but also be much more responsive. I hope that helped at least > one contributor go from 1st commit to 2nd commit.
This is a great point. It's easy to find new contributors because we have a bot that drops a welcome message on their patch, and gerrit can query by reviewer: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/reviewer:%22Welcome%252C+new+contributor!%22+status:open,n,z > > Other than that, working (with Dims) trying to take up a number of > initiatives that bring new contributors to OpenStack including > > - speaking to university students (a project I proposed a while back > called OpenStack in the classroom[1]) > - making presentations at Summit(s) meetups, and any other place which > will have us to tell people about OpenStack[2]. > - participate (as a mentor) in the OpenStack mentorship program, the > Women of OpenStack program, and a myriad of other non-OpenStack > community development programs > > Shameless plug for Dims & my presentation at Summit in Sydney about > contributing to OpenStack [2]. > > Thanks for the question! > > -amrith > > [1] http://openstack.markmail.org/thread/qadfotwkoj6alivj > [2] > https://www.openstack.org/summit/sydney-2017/summit-schedule/events/19116/getting-started-with-contributing-to-openstack-dos-and-donts > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 8:45 AM, Flavio Percoco <fla...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Some of you, TC candidates, expressed concerns about diversity and > > inclusiveness > > (or inclusivity, depending on your taste) in your candidacy. I believe this > > is a > > broad, and some times ill-used, topic so, I'd like to know, from y'all, how > > you > > think we could make our community more inclusive. What areas would you > > improve > > first? > > > > Thank you, > > Flavio > > > > -- > > @flaper87 > > Flavio Percoco > > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
