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On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlowja at outlook.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was reading over the TC IRC logs for this week (my weekly reading) and I
> just wanted to let my thoughts and comments be known on:
>
>
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tc/2015/tc.2015-09-08-20.01.log.html#l-309
>
> I feel it's very important to send a positive note for new/upcoming
> projects and libraries... (and for everyone to remember that most projects
> do start off with a small set of backers). So I just wanted to try to
> ensure that we send a positive note with any tag like this that gets
> created and applied and that we all (especially the TC) really really
> considers the negative connotations of applying that tag to a project (it
> may effectively ~kill~ that project).
>
> I would really appreciate that instead of just applying this tag (or other
> similarly named tag to projects) that instead the TC try to actually help
> out projects with those potential tags in the first place (say perhaps by
> actively listing projects that may need more contributors from a variety of
> companies on the openstack blog under say a 'HELP WANTED' page or
> something). I'd much rather have that vs. any said tags, because the latter
> actually tries to help projects, vs just stamping them with a 'you are bad,
> figure out how to fix yourself, because you are not diverse' tag.
>
> I believe it is the TC job (in part) to help make the community better,
> and not via tags like this that IMHO actually make it worse; I really hope
> that folks on the TC can look back at their own projects they may have
> created and ask how would their own project have turned out if they were
> stamped with a similar tag...
>

I agree with Josh and, furthermore, maybe a similar "warning" could be
implicitly made by helping the community understand why the
"diverse-affiliation" tag matters.  If we (through education on tags in
general) stated that the reason diverse-affiliation matters, amongst other
things, is because it shows that the project can potentially survive a
single contributor changing their involvement then wouldn't that achieve
the same purpose of showing stability/mindshare/collaboration for projects
with diverse-affiliation tag (versus those that don't have it) and make
them more "preferred" in a sense?

Thanks,
Shamail


> - Josh
>
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-- 
Thanks,
Shamail Tahir
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