[openstack-dev] [tc] campaign question: How can we make contributing to OpenStack easier?

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Mon Apr 23 17:57:27 UTC 2018


Excerpts from Matt Riedemann's message of 2018-04-23 12:35:07 -0500:
> On 4/23/2018 12:18 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> > I would like for us to collect some more data about what efforts
> > teams are making with encouraging new contributors, and what seems
> > to be working or not. In the past we've done pretty well at finding
> > new techniques by experimenting within one team and then adapting
> > the results to scale them out to other teams.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any examples of things that we ought to be trying more
> > of?
> 
> The nova team is now trying runways [1] for trying to focus reviews on 
> blueprints which are ready but otherwise don't get the focus from the 
> core team.
> 
> The certificate validation stuff in there for the John Hopkins team is a 
> prime example of how this is putting focus on something that has 
> otherwise been getting deferred since at least the Ocata summit.
> 
> [1] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/nova-runways-rocky
> 

Great example. It sounds like it's helping, and I look forward to
hearing the retrospective at the end of the cycle.

Doug



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