[tc][all] Ussuri community goal candidate 1: 'Project Specific New Contributor & PTL Docs'

Ghanshyam Mann gmann at ghanshyammann.com
Tue Oct 29 15:13:21 UTC 2019


 ---- On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 14:26:48 -0500 melanie witt <melwittt at gmail.com> wrote ----
 > On 10/22/19 08:13, Ghanshyam Mann wrote:
 > > Hello Everyone,
 > > 
 > > We are starting the next step for the Ussuri Cycle Community Goals. We have four candidates till now as proposed in
 > > etherpad[1].
 > > 
 > > The first candidate is "Project Specific New Contributor & PTL Docs".  Kendall (diablo_rojo) volunteered to lead this goal
 > > as Champion.  Thanks to her for stepping up for this job.
 > > 
 > > This idea was brought up during Train cycle goal discussions also[2]. The idea here is to have a consistent and mandatory
 > > contributors guide in each project which will help new contributors to get onboard in upstream activities.
 > > Also, create PTL duties guide on the project's side. Few projects might have the PTL duties documented and making it
 > > consistent and for all projects is something easy for transferring the knowledge.
 > > Kendall can put up more details and highlights based on queries.
 > > 
 > > We would like to open this idea to get wider feedback from the community and projects team before we start defining
 > > the goal in Gerrit. What do you think of this as a community goal? Any query or Improvement Feedback?
 > 
 > I wrote what I call a "chronological PTL guide" for nova [3], which was 
 > originally a local google doc I had used while I was PTL. I converted 
 > and published it as an in-tree nova doc in case it would be helpful to 
 > others.
 > 
 > I think having a PTL guide doc is nice and could potentially make it 
 > easier for new or prospective PTLs to learn what is involved in the duties.

Thanks Melanie for link, that is very helpful.

-gmann

 > 
 > -melanie
 > 
 > [3] https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/contributor/ptl-guide.html
 > 
 > > [1] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/PVG-u-series-goals
 > > [2] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/BER-t-series-goals
 > > 
 > > -gmann & diablo_rojo
 > > 
 > > 
 > 
 > 
 > 




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