On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Violeta Georgieva <violet...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi, > > 2017-05-31 6:07 GMT+03:00 Coty Sutherland <csuth...@redhat.com>: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I've been thinking about things that we could do for Tomcat to help >> bring in new contributors and to be more appealing to new developers. >> Right now we have http://tomcat.apache.org/getinvolved.html which has >> a few bullet points and links to documentation, which is a bit verbose, >> about how to contribute to an Apache project. We also have the wiki >> (https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FrontPage), which mentions nothing >> about contributing. Bugzilla is a bit daunting for newcomers (thought >> we did create the "Beginners" tag to help identify some BZs for new >> folks to work on) too. I've been looking around for some ideas on how to >> make it easier for new people to contribute after having some >> conversations with friends about contributing to Tomcat and found some >> interesting examples other projects are using to help bring new people >> in, such as https://wiki.gnome.org/Newcomers (which is my favorite) >> and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join. Obviously Tomcat isn't as >> large of a project as those, but it does have multiple places for >> people to contribute (Documentation, Patches, FAQ, wiki, etc) which >> could use different skill sets. This site >> http://whatcanidoforfedora.org/en would be really cool to implement, >> but at the ASF level I think (Tomcat isn't complex enough to warrant >> that, is it?). >> >> Anyway, the point of this email is really just to say that we should >> take some cues from other projects and try and develop a solid entry >> ramp to help entice new developers :) What does everyone else think? > > One thing that might help from my point of view is to provide README.md and > CONTRIBUTING.md for those who are working with GitHub replications of the > repository. It is convenient to have the contribution's instruction > directly in the root of the repository. > e.g. > https://github.com/apache/jmeter/blob/trunk/README.md > https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/README.md > > > What do you think?
Oh yeah. That's a great idea! I was just catching up on the thread and was trying to think of a way a way to let github users know what committers are doing with their PRs to get them committed (a README is obvious). I think that adding some transparency there may help them understand some issues that could cause latency. > Regards, > Violeta >> >> >> Thanks, >> Coty --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
