Hello, I bit overdue but I've been very busy catching up with sleep lately... So here is finally my short report on the first volunteer day attempt. There will be a couple of open questions in there, opinions are most welcome.
Saturday 18th February 9am: Just woke up, breakfast, got to my computer, and IRC here I come. Admittedly I didn't expect many people to show up early... But at 10am sharp I was getting the first requests! Aaron showed up soon after that helping me keep the things on track (thanks a lot for showing up *that* early I know how much mornings pain you!). The lack of build system grand masters was telling though. I think we should really aim at having either Alex or Steve available the next time. In grand total we had five persons asking for help. I admit being surprised about the seniority of those people, most of them were not long timers. That said they were all motivated so that's cool. :-) Out of those five, two decided to try themselves at splitting some frameworks out of kdeui, and somewhat unsurprisingly they've been struggling with it. So far I didn't see their changes for those split get into the branch which concerns me a tiny bit: are they about to give up in disgust? If that's the case then we probably failed at giving a task of the right difficulty to someone. All those who picked the smaller kdelibs cleanup tasks did better overall. They either completed during the days, or I've seen commits later on this week to complete the thing. It seems to be easier to get committed people that way. So I'd say for later editions: except if that's already someone for which we're sure the skill set is correct for a split propose a cleanup task instead. After a couple of cleanups maybe they can pick up a splitting task but that's probably too much to chew on a first try if you have no experience whatsoever dealing with kdelibs. It's a bit filtering on reputation which I don't like, but I'd rather do that than turning people away in disgust. Any opinion there? Also, I think it was worth it to have such a session at two levels: 1) Indeed shows people they can help, and some turned up to try themselves on frameworks, definitely needed; 2) For people already involved, that forces us to block a day on frameworks and we can make nice progress (like Aaron spontaneously taking on kwindowsystem, or myself tidying up more of the wiki... I'm doomed to not code these days). So we should definitely keep doing those, the real question is when? Should it be weekly? bi-monthly? monthly? It seems to be "the more the better" but I doubt we can get enough people to be available every week. I definitely can't be there for all of them, that said not everyone needs to be there, two or three people to be mentors are enough, so we can probably have some rotations. Opinions? I'd definitely welcome any creative solution allowing to have these events very regularly. Regards. -- Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net KDAB - proud patron of KDE, http://www.kdab.com
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