<div dir="ltr"><b style="font-weight:normal" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-10a41309-f36a-2aba-1f95-20d714b3d48a"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* What aspects of our policies or culture make contributing to OpenStack</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">more difficult than contributing to other open source projects?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To fully understand the map of OpenStack services is a huge challenge, especially for new join developers. And for project teams, might not provide new contributors guidelines to be quicker to become part of the team. Finally, the format or WG/SIG/Team might confuse contributors.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Which of those would you change, and how?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IMO to provides clear landscape will help on give people better view on the whole map and might get the better idea on how to fit in their plan without spending too much time on finding where to contribute. Also, we need provides better ways to communicate to new contributors to at least make them feel welcome. Which maybe we can try to add in PTL/TC's (or other possible position) duty and to provide better guidelines to new join contributors who seems got no clue on what's the project been working on or where the project needs help. Only people we really understand that project can provide such judgment, and it seems like a duty to provide guidelines to others (Aka help people working with you). Finally, I personally think it's a good idea to have SIG in OpenStack, but I think we need to provide technical guidelines to SIGs, so they can make a clear decision on what's their mission, where are the resources they can use, and how they might be able to use it. A clear vision makes clear actions.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Where else should we be looking for contributors?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IMO we actually got a bunch new contributors around OpenStack (mostly for nova and neutron of course) and trying to figure out what they can/should do. Also possibly from other projects which might be doing overlapping jobs. Also to form SIG might be a more productive way to collect contributors.</span></p></b><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium;font-family:verdana"><tbody><tr><td colspan="3" align="left" valign="center" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:verdana">May The Force of Open<font color="#ff0000">Stack</font> Be With You,</span> <br><b><i><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Rico Lin<br></font></i></b><span class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_54 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_spell gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_run_anim gmail-ContextualSpelling gmail-ins-del gmail-multiReplace" id="gmail-54" style="display:inline;border-bottom:2px solid transparent;background-repeat:no-repeat;color:inherit;font-size:inherit">irc</span>:<span> </span><span class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_55 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_spell gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_run_anim gmail-ContextualSpelling gmail-ins-del gmail-multiReplace" id="gmail-55" style="display:inline;border-bottom:2px solid transparent;background-repeat:no-repeat;color:inherit;font-size:inherit">ricolin</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-04-23 22:06 GMT+08:00 Doug Hellmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:doug@doughellmann.com" target="_blank">doug@doughellmann.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">[This is meant to be one of (I hope) several conversation-provoking<br>
questions directed at prospective TC members to help the community<br>
understand their positions before considering how to vote in the<br>
ongoing election.]<br>
<br>
Over the last year we have seen some contraction in the number of<br>
companies and individuals contributing to OpenStack. At the same<br>
time we have started seeing contributions from other companies and<br>
individuals. To some degree this contraction and shift in contributor<br>
base is a natural outcome of changes in OpenStack itself along with<br>
the rest of the technology industry, but as with any change it<br>
raises questions about how and whether we can ensure a smooth<br>
transition to a new steady state.<br>
<br>
What aspects of our policies or culture make contributing to OpenStack<br>
more difficult than contributing to other open source projects?<br>
<br>
Which of those would you change, and how?<br>
<br>
Where else should we be looking for contributors?<br>
<br>
Doug<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="background-image:none!important"><div style="font-size:small"><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium;font-family:verdana"><tbody><tr><td colspan="3" align="left" valign="center"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:verdana">May The Force of Open<font color="#ff0000">Stack</font> Be With You,</span> <br><b><i><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Rico Lin<br></font></i></b>irc: ricolin</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" align="left" valign="center" style="height:10px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-bottom-color:rgb(221,221,221)"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"></td></tr></tbody></table><br></div></div></div><font size="2" face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#999999"></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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