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Excerpts from Rico Lin's message of 2018-04-24 00:54:14 +0800:
> ** What aspects of our policies or culture make contributing to
> OpenStackmore difficult than contributing to other open source projects?To
> fully understand the map of OpenStack services is a huge challenge,
> especially for new join developers. And for project teams, might not

This is an interesting point that I haven't heard raised before.
Typically the number of projects is used as an example of something
that is confusing to users or deployers, but can you elaborate on
how it is confusing to contributors?

> provide new contributors guidelines to be quicker to become part of the
> team. Finally, the format or WG/SIG/Team might confuse contributors.* Which

Do you mean because it isn't clear what sort of group to start in order
to accomplish something?

> of those would you change, and how?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

What role do you think the First Contact SIG might play in that?

> 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.* Where else should we be looking for contributors?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.*
> 
> 
> 
> May The Force of OpenStack Be With You,
> 
> *Rico Lin*irc: ricolin
> 
> 2018-04-23 22:06 GMT+08:00 Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com>:
> 
> > [This is meant to be one of (I hope) several conversation-provoking
> > questions directed at prospective TC members to help the community
> > understand their positions before considering how to vote in the
> > ongoing election.]
> >
> > Over the last year we have seen some contraction in the number of
> > companies and individuals contributing to OpenStack. At the same
> > time we have started seeing contributions from other companies and
> > individuals. To some degree this contraction and shift in contributor
> > base is a natural outcome of changes in OpenStack itself along with
> > the rest of the technology industry, but as with any change it
> > raises questions about how and whether we can ensure a smooth
> > transition to a new steady state.
> >
> > What aspects of our policies or culture make contributing to OpenStack
> > more difficult than contributing to other open source projects?
> >
> > Which of those would you change, and how?
> >
> > Where else should we be looking for contributors?
> >
> > Doug
> >
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