On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:45 PM, James E. Blair <[email protected]> wrote: > Rainya Mosher <[email protected]> writes: > >> hihi all and particularly Monty & Jim, >> >> Is this bootcamp planned to be a pure hackday-format for high-code >> contributors or is it more about process and setting up "how tos" for >> newbies to the organization? Or a combination? I am very curious about >> what outputs we expect to see for those that can make it to NYC and those >> that will not be able to attend. If it is "just" for hacking on code, that >> is great, but anything that can be done can do in terms of documenting >> processes and best practices and how to enter the Infra team would be >> beneficial (in my opinion.) > > Hi! > > The goal is to get new core contributors to the infra team, long term. > So it's not a typical sprint where we measure the success in code output > -- we might write some code, but that's incidental. This is more of a > "boot camp". Real success will be measured by whether, in 6 months, > we've managed to grow the team of infrastructure core reviewers. > > We're an extremely active project but our ratio of core reviewers to > changes is much smaller than other OpenStack projects. Some of the > stuff we do is rather complicated, and it's hard for new people to pick > it all up, or even know where to start sometimes. So we're going to > invest some time in helping people who can commit serious time to the > infrastructure team get up to speed so that they can start making > significant contributions soon, both as contributors and reviewers, and > hopefully become core team members in the future, or at least regular > and substantial contributors. >> -Jim > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-Infra mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra
> You know we're trying to run the most open project infrastructure we > can, and any contribution is always welcome. However, at this > particular event, we don't want to focus on enabling casual > contributions. We really want people who can at least work half-time on > pure upstream OpenStack project needs. That means working on things > that affect the whole project, not just an employer's area of interest. > People who can help maintain Gerrit, Zuul, Jenkins, Etherpad, IRC bots, > Mailman, Logstash, Devstack-gate, etc. I believe that kind of broad > focus is needed to become a core member of the infrastructure team. > > I hope that helps you understand what we want to accomplish at this > event. > > As another part of this effort, I have recently restructured the > infrastructure documentation: > > http://ci.openstack.org/ > > Its focus is now to help new contributors (both casual and long-term) to > any of the infrastructure sub-projects. It describes the operation of > the project and team, how to make and test changes, and gives an > overview with resources for each of the major systems we manage. It's > _far_ from complete, but I hope the course is now set and we can > continue on that heading. > I'm considering going but need a clear up a few things. When is the latest you'd need to know? NY is an 8 hour drive for me, so that is not a issue. Basically need to spend a few hours looking for a hotel. -- Paul Belanger | PolyBeacon, Inc. Jabber: [email protected] | IRC: pabelanger (Freenode) Github: https://github.com/pabelanger | Twitter: https://twitter.com/pabelanger _______________________________________________ OpenStack-Infra mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra
