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On 14 February 2014 07:06, Victoria Martínez de la Cruz <
victoria at vmartinezdelacruz.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I think we should separate between mentoring efforts and documentation.
>
> For the first one, is true that there are always tons of tasks to do but
> sometimes a beginner won't find them because they are not familiar with the
> workflow neither with the community. People that is not involved with
> open-source just doesn't know where to start when reaching to an
> organization of this kind. So, having someone to ask about this is usually
> a great help. That is something OpenHatch is intended to solve.
>
> I must say that OpenHatch is not time consuming and helped several people
> to join OpenStack and start contributing to it. And that is great :)
>
> Another thing we tried last year is #openstack-101, a channel for new
> contributors where they are free to ask any doubt they could have. I'm
> happy to say this worked as a hub between newcomers and the community and
> that lots of people have been able to start working with us.
>
> About documentation, I agree that it could be quite overwhelming the first
> time, but that is how complex our organization is. The thing is... we get
> used to that.
>
> Perhaps we could ask new contributors what they would like to find in the
> 'How to contribute' wiki page and refine it to make it easier for new
> people (I volunteer for that!).
>
> Finally, I wanted to mention that mentoring is great. I still have many
> things to learn, but I have been able to guide people with their first
> steps in the community and is cool to see how a little effort like that
> mean, later in time, great contributions.
>
> Thanks all for the feedback,
>
> Victoria
>
>
It has probably been mentioned before and I missed it but, where can people
find these mentors you talk about? This should be mentioned in pages like:
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HowToContribute
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/DevQuickstart
https://swiftstack.com/blog/2013/02/12/swift-for-new-contributors/


>
>
> 2014-02-13 23:46 GMT-03:00 Luis de Bethencourt <luis at debethencourt.com>:
>
>> On 13 February 2014 21:09, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2014-02-12 14:42:17 -0600 (-0600), Dolph Mathews wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> > There's a lot of such scenarios where new contributors can
>>> > quickly find things to contribute, or at lest provide incredibly
>>> > valuable feedback to the project in the form of reviews!
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> I heartily second the suggestion. The biggest and best thing I did
>>> as a new contributor was to start reviewing changes first thing. An
>>> initial contributor, if they have any aptitude for software
>>> development at all, will be able to tell a ton about our development
>>> community by how it interacts through code review. The test-centric
>>> methodology, style guidelines and general level of
>>> acceptance/tolerance for various things become immediately apparent.
>>> You also get to test your understanding of the source by watching
>>> all the mistakes other reviewers find that you missed in your
>>> reviewing. Refine and repeat.
>>>
>>> Getting a couple of very simple changes in right away also helps you
>>> pick up the workflow and toolset, but reviewing others changes is a
>>> huge boon to both the project and the would-be contributors doing
>>> the reviewing... much more so than correcting a handful of
>>> typographical errors.
>>> --
>>> Jeremy Stanley
>>>
>>
>>
>> That is a very good idea Jeremy.
>>
>> I started learning and contributing to OpenStack yesterday. I have been
>> writing down all the things I do, read and discover. Planning to blog about
>> and share it. I think it would be valuable to show how to contribute and
>> learn the project from the point of view of a novice to it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Luis
>>
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