Btw, it would be possible to have a welcome-bot on Slack. It would
recognize new users joining the channel, and send them some friendly
message. Part of the message could be the list of friendly volunteers
available to help newcomers.
On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 6:57 PM Benjamin Lerer wrote:
>
Thanks a lot everybody for the feedback.
It sounds that most of you are not convinced by the slack channel but
believe that a list of newcomer mentors will be more efficient.
That sounds like a good approach to me.
I will start a new discussion to collect the list of volunteers.
Le mar. 9 nov.
I also feel that having all the resources to get help in more or less
one place (#cassandra-dev slack / ML) probably helps newcomers on the
whole since they can ask questions and likely engage with someone who
can help. I know that I've asked a few silly questions in
#cassandra-dev and appreciated
>
> not because there's 600 pair of eyes watching
> this (TBH, if you didn't mention it, I wouldn't have noticed it)
oof; that wasn't my intent at all! :)
I think a clearly written and easy to find community
> guideline highlighting that this mailing list is suitable for beginner
> questions,
+1 that existing channels of communication (cassandra-dev slack and mailing
lists) should ideally suffice, and I have not seen prohibitive
communication in those forums thus far that goes against newcomers. I agree
it can be intimidating, but to Bowen's point, the more traffic we see
around
As a newcomer (made two commits since October) who has been watching
this mailing list since then, I don't like the idea of a separate
channel for beginner questions. The volume in this mailing list is
fairly low, I can't see any legitimate reason for diverting a portion of
that into another
+1 to a new channel, imo it will give that safe space to newcomers. Also
happy to be flagged as a mentor, helper, contact point or whatever to
the newcomers.
On 8/11/21 21:10, Joshua McKenzie wrote:
> Asking questions in front of 600 people (even virtually) can be
> prohibitively hard for a lot
Asking questions in front of 600 people (even virtually) can be
prohibitively hard for a lot of people. I'm with Ekaterina; flagging
certain people in the channel as "available to mentor" so new contributors
would know who they could reach out to 1:1 to get situated and potentially
build some
> Do newcomers feel confident enough to ask questions there?
We get a few a quarter, guess the bigger question is “why do we not get more”?
I don’t have issues following another channel, glad to help where I can.
Another channel is low effort so I don’t have any issues trying to see if it
> cassandra-dev has low enough volume that newbie questions can be
> accommodated.
>
I agree that we could deal with newbie questions on the cassandra-dev
channel. The question for me is more: Do newcomers feel confident enough to
ask questions there?
Can we try anything different like people
>
> New developers or new users?
>
It is for New contributors that are working on their first patches. The
idea is to create a safe space in which they could ask beginner questions
about the code.
Le lun. 8 nov. 2021 à 17:44, Matt Kennedy a
écrit :
> As an old timer trying to figure out for
> On Nov 8, 2021, at 8:43 AM, Matt Kennedy wrote:
>
> welcome
> the addition of a dev slack channel as a much more approachable forum in
> which to ask stupid questions. This mailing least seems focused on
Instead why don't we make cassandra-dev more approachable for new developers?
If
Can we try anything different like people who volunteer as mentors to be
contacted with questions at the beginning before people start feeling
comfortable with channels?
They can also be per specific area or something like that?
I also feel that not many people will use another public channel,
As an old timer trying to figure out for himself how to re-engage on the
community side after being focused on Astra for so long, I would welcome
the addition of a dev slack channel as a much more approachable forum in
which to ask stupid questions. This mailing least seems focused on the
New developers or new users? I'd be afraid that a new developer-focused
channel might not get many eyes (or, it'll get the same 600 eyes, and it'll
have the same problem).
On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 8:29 AM Benjamin Lerer wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Aleksei Zotov mentioned to me that it was a bit
I think that's a great idea.
On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 10:29 AM Benjamin Lerer wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> Aleksei Zotov mentioned to me that it was a bit intimidating for newcomers
> to ask beginner questions in the cassandra-dev channel as it has over 600
> followers and that we should probably
Hi everybody,
Aleksei Zotov mentioned to me that it was a bit intimidating for newcomers
to ask beginner questions in the cassandra-dev channel as it has over 600
followers and that we should probably have a specific channel for
newcomers.
This proposal makes total sense to me.
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