On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 12:21 AM Ghanshyam Mann gmann@ghanshyammann.com wrote:
---- On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 02:14:56 +0900 Kendall Nelson < kennelson11@gmail.com> wrote ----
On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 8:01 AM Thierry Carrez thierry@openstack.org
wrote:
Doug Hellmann wrote:
Kendall Nelson kennelson11@gmail.com writes:
[...] So I think that the First Contact SIG project liaison list kind of
fits
this. Its already maintained in a wiki and its already a list of
people
willing to be contacted for helping people get started. It probably
just
needs more attention and refreshing. When it was first set up we
(the FC
SIG) kind of went around begging for volunteers and then once we
maxxed out
on them, we said those projects without volunteers will have the
role
defaulted to the PTL unless they delegate (similar to how other
liaison
roles work).
Long story short, I think we have the sort of mentoring things
covered. And
to back up an earlier email, project specific onboarding would be a
good
help too.
OK, that does sound pretty similar. I guess the piece that's missing
is
a description of the sort of help the team is interested in
receiving.
I guess the key difference is that the first contact list is more a function of the team (who to contact for first contributions in this team, defaults to PTL), rather than a distinct offer to do 1:1
mentoring
to cover specific needs in a team.
It's probably pretty close (and the same people would likely be involved), but I think an approach where specific people offer a significant amount of their time to one mentee interested in joining a team is a bit different. I don't think every team would have
volunteers
to do that. I would not expect a mentor volunteer to care for several mentees. In the end I think we would end up with a much shorter list than the FC list.
I think our original ask for people volunteering (before we completed
the list with PTLs as stand ins) was for people willing to help get started in a project and look after their first few patches. So I think that was kinda the mentoring role originally but then it evolved? Maybe Matt Oliver or Ghanshyam remember better than I do?
Yeah, that's right.
Maybe the two efforts can converge into one, or they can be kept as
two
different things but coordinated by the same team ?
I think we could go either way, but that they both would live with the
FC SIG. Seems like the most logical place to me. I lean towards two lists, one being a list of volunteer mentors for projects that are actively looking for new contributors (the shorter list) and the other being a list of people just willing to keep an eye out for the welcome new contributor patches and being the entry point for people asking about getting started that don't know anyone in the project yet (kind of what our current view is, I think). --
IMO, very first thing to make help-wanted list a success is, it has to be uptodate per development cycle, mentor-mapping(or with example workflow etc). By Keeping the help-wanted list in any place other than the project team again leads to existing problem for example it will be hard to prioritize, maintain and easy to get obsolete/outdated. FC SIG, D&I WG are great place to market/redirect the contributors to the list.
The model I was thinking is:
- Project team maintain the help-wanted-list per current development
cycle. Entry criteria in that list is some volunteer mentor(exmaple workflow/patch) which are technically closer to that topic.
I was thinking more yearly than per release if its not too much work for project teams.
I think each item on the list also needs clear completion criteria. If the item hasn't been picked up in like two releases or something we (the FC SIG) can send it back to the project team to make sure its still relevant, the mentor is correct, etc.
- During PTG/developer meetup, PTL checks if planned/discussed topic
needs to be in help-wanted list and who will serve as the mentor. 3. The list has to be updated in every developement cycle. It can be empty if any project team does not need help during that cycle or few items can be carry-forward if those are still a priority and have mentor mapping. 4. FC SIG, D&I WG, Mentoring team use that list and publish in all possible place. Redirect new contributors to that list depends on the contributor interested area. This will be the key role to make help-wanted-list success.
-gmann
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
-Kendall (diablo_rojo)
-Kendall (diablo_rojo)