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On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 8:26 AM, Steven Dake (stdake) <stdake at cisco.com>
wrote:

> Folks,
>
> We want to be inviting to new contributors even if they are green.  New
> contributors reflect on OpenStack’s growth in a positive way.  The fact
> that a new-to-openstack contributor would make such and error doesn’t
> warrant such a negative response even if it a hassle for the various PTLs
> and core reviewer teams to deal with.  This is one of the many aspects of
> OpenStack projects a PTL is elected to manage (mentorship).  If mentorship
> isn’t in a leader’s personal mission, I’m not sure they should be leading
> anything.
>
Yeah you are right. We should be all welcoming and friendly. But please
(re)read the complains and issues that several reviewers raised in that
thread. Saying there's no problem and that core reviewers have to deal with
it is not the solution.

I've encountered most situations Amrith mentionned in his email, I feel the
same and sometimes I'am exhausted. I remember when I started contributing
to OpenStack, I never did that kind of useless patches. I think we have to
accept that some people could lack some common sense or could be a bit too
new to Python programming or too new to open source. I don"t feel bad about
ignoring these patches or auto -1/-2. I read somewhere that contributing to
opensource is a privileged not a right.



>
> Regards
> -steve
>
>
> On 9/21/16, 7:35 AM, "Boris Bobrov" <bbobrov at mirantis.com> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     > in addition to this, please, PLEASE stop creating 'all project
> bugs'. i
>     > don't want to get emails on updates to projects unrelated to the
> ones i
>     > care about. also, it makes updating the bug impossible because it
> times
>     > out. i'm too lazy to search ML but this has been raise before,
> please stop.
>     >
>     > let's all unite together and block these patches to bring an end to
> it. :)
>
>     People who contribute to OpenStack long enough already know this.
>     Usually new contributors do it. And we cannot reach out to them
>     in this mailing list. There should be a way to limit this somewhere
>     in Launchpad.
>
>     > On 21/09/16 07:56 AM, Amrith Kumar wrote:
>     >> Of late I've been seeing a lot of rather questionable changes that
>     >> appear to be getting blasted out across multiple projects; changes
> that
>     >> cause considerable code churn, and don't (IMHO) materially improve
> the
>     >> quality of OpenStack.
>     >>
>     >> I’d love to provide a list of the changes that triggered this email
> but
>     >> I know that this will result in a rat hole where we end up
> discussing
>     >> the merits of the individual items on the list and lose sight of the
>     >> bigger picture. That won’t help address the question I have below
> in any
>     >> way, so I’m at a disadvantage of having to describe my issue in
> abstract
>     >> terms.
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> Here’s how I characterize these changes (changes that meet one or
> more
>     >> of these criteria):
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> -    Contains little of no information in the commit message (often
> just
>     >> a single line)
>     >>
>     >> -    Makes some generic statement like “Do X not Y”, “Don’t use Z”,
>     >> “Make ABC better” with no further supporting information
>     >>
>     >> -    Fail (literally) every single CI job, clearly never tested by
> the
>     >> developer
>     >>
>     >> -    Gets blasted across many projects, literally tens with often
> the
>     >> same kind of questionable (often wrong) change
>     >>
>     >> -    Makes a stylistic python improvement that is not enforced by
> any
>     >> check (causes a cottage industry of changes making the same
> correction
>     >> every couple of months)
>     >>
>     >> -    Reverses some previous python stylistic improvement with no
> clear
>     >> reason (another cottage industry)
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> I’ve tried to explain it to myself as enthusiasm, and a desire to
>     >> contribute aggressively; I’ve lapsed into cynicism at times and
> tried to
>     >> explain it as gaming the numbers system, but all that is merely
>     >> rationalization and doesn’t help.
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> Over time, the result generally is that these developers’ changes
> get
>     >> ignored. And that’s not a good thing for the community as a whole.
> We
>     >> want to be a welcoming community and one which values all
> contributions
>     >> so I’m looking for some suggestions and guidance on how one can work
>     >> with contributors to try and improve the quality of these changes,
> and
>     >> help the contributor feel that their changes are valued by the
> project?
>     >> Other more experienced PTL’s, ex-PTL’s, long time
> open-source-community
>     >> folks, I’m seriously looking for suggestions and ideas.
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> Any and all input is welcome, do other projects see this, how do you
>     >> handle it, is this normal, …
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> Thanks!
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> -amrith
>     >>
>     >
>     > cheers,
>     >
>
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