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On 4/23/2018 12:18 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> I would like for us to collect some more data about what efforts
> teams are making with encouraging new contributors, and what seems
> to be working or not. In the past we've done pretty well at finding
> new techniques by experimenting within one team and then adapting
> the results to scale them out to other teams.
> 
> Does anyone have any examples of things that we ought to be trying more
> of?

The nova team is now trying runways [1] for trying to focus reviews on 
blueprints which are ready but otherwise don't get the focus from the 
core team.

The certificate validation stuff in there for the John Hopkins team is a 
prime example of how this is putting focus on something that has 
otherwise been getting deferred since at least the Ocata summit.

[1] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/nova-runways-rocky

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Thanks,

Matt