Thanks a lot Sharan, Patrick and Lorina. It is a perfectly valid point that the PMC members have recognized for some time already and are actively working on. 😊
Le mar. 8 févr. 2022 à 23:07, Lorina Poland <lor...@datastax.com> a écrit : > +1 to this conversation, from a Docs wonk. :-) > > On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 1:40 PM Patrick McFadin <pmcfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Sharan has done a good job shining a spotlight on something that has >> created a weird bottleneck in the project. Docs and the Cassandra website >> are all in-tree, but it takes somebody who probably isn't even working on >> those things to commit any changes. Dinesh nailed it. It's silly. I'm sure >> the PMC can come up with a reasonable solution that can be done quickly. >> There are a lot of us that love this project that contribute in ways that >> don't get compiled into a jar file. This is something that needs to be >> solved for the sake of project velocity. >> >> Patrick >> >> On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 10:28 PM Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> >>> Thank you Sharan for sharing. >>> >>> >>>> So here in Apache Cassandra I see there is a whole lot of activity >>>> happening around the website, marketing, project promotion, blogs, social >>>> media - these activities are all contributions to the project. If there are >>>> contributions happening in the project that need a committer to action, >>>> then it could make sense to consider having committers that are focussed >>>> around the 'non coding' parts. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> This is so true for us. We are spending a lot of extra time getting >>> these non-code contributions across the finish line. The context switching >>> and wait time involved in just one more handover, and often across time >>> zones, is hurting. And regardless, totally agree we should be formally >>> recognising the ongoing work that goes into these non-coding contributions. >>> >>>
