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Great idea!

I would also throw another issue new people often have (I had it too).
Namely what to contribute. Lot's of people wants to do something but
not quite know where to start.
So few ideas for start:
* List of triaged bugs
* List of work items of large blueprits

Thoughts,
Michal

On 23 June 2017 at 13:17, Mike Perez <thingee at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Every month we have people asking on IRC or the dev mailing list having
> interest in working on OpenStack, and sometimes they're given different
> answers from people, or worse, no answer at all.
>
> Suggestion: lets work our efforts together to create some common
> documentation so that all teams in OpenStack can benefit.
>
> First it’s important to note that we’re not just talking about code projects
> here. OpenStack contributions come in many forms such as running meet ups,
> identifying use cases (product working group), documentation, testing, etc.
> We want to make sure those potential contributors feel welcomed too!
>
> What is common documentation? Things like setting up Git, the many accounts
> you need to setup to contribute (gerrit, launchpad, OpenStack foundation
> account). Not all teams will use some common documentation, but the point is
> one or more projects will use them. Having the common documentation worked
> on by various projects will better help prevent duplicated efforts,
> inconsistent documentation, and hopefully just more accurate information.
>
> A team might use special tools to do their work. These can also be
> integrated in this idea as well.
>
> Once we have common documentation we can have something like:
>     1. Choose your own adventure: I want to contribute by code
>     2. What service type are you interested in? (Database, Block storage,
> compute)
>     3. Here’s step-by-step common documentation to setting up Git, IRC,
> Mailing Lists, Accounts, etc.
>     4. A service type project might choose to also include additional
> documentation in that flow for special tools, etc.
>
> Important things to note in this flow:
>     * How do you want to contribute?
>     * Here are **clear** names that identify the team. Not code names like
> Cloud Kitty, Cinder, etc.
>     * The documentation should really aim to not be daunting:
>     * Someone should be able to glance at it and feel like they can finish
> things in five minutes. Not be yet another tab left in their browser that
> they’ll eventually forget about
>     * No wall of text!
>     * Use screen shots
>     * Avoid covering every issue you could hit along the way.
>
> ## Examples of More Simple Documentation
> I worked on some documentation for the Upstream University preparation that
> has received excellent feedback meet close to these suggestions:
>     * IRC [1]
>     * Git [2]
>     * Account Setup [3]
>
> ## 500 Feet Birds Eye view
> There will be a Contributor landing page on the openstack.org website.
> Existing contributors will find reference links to quickly jump to things.
> New contributors will find a banner at the top of the page to direct them to
> the choose your own adventure to contributing to OpenStack, with ordered
> documentation flow that reuses existing documentation when necessary.
> Picture also a progress bar somewhere to show how close you are to being
> ready to contribute to whatever team. Of course there are a lot of other
> fancy things we can come up with, but I think getting something up as an
> initial pass would be better than what we have today.
>
> Here's an example of what the sections/chapters could look like:
>
> - Code
>         * Volumes (Cinder)
>              * IRC
>              * Git
>              * Account Setup
>              * Generating Configs
>         * Compute (Nova)
>              * IRC
>              * Git
>              * Account Setup
>         * Something about hypervisors (matrix?)
> -  Use Cases
> * Products (Product working group)
> * IRC
>     * Git
> * Use Case format
>
> There are some rough mock up ideas [4]. Probably Sphinx will be fine for
> this. Potentially we could use this content for conference lunch and learns,
> upstream university, and the on-boarding events at the Forum. What do you
> all think?
>
> [1] - http://docs.openstack.org/upstream-training/irc.html
> [2] - http://docs.openstack.org/upstream-training/git.html
> [3] - http://docs.openstack.org/upstream-training/accounts.html
> [4] -
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/o46xh1cp0sv0045/OpenStack%20contributor%20portal.pdf?dl=0
>
> —
>
> Mike Perez
>
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