I think that all of the bootcamps we ran in the past produced precisely zero
new contributors.
I wonder if it would be more impactful to produce slightly more permanent
content, such as step-by-step guides to producing a simple patch for some
subsystem. Perhaps if people want to, a recording could be created of going
through that guide as well.
That said, if there are new contributors actively trying to participate,
organising a periodic group chat to talk through one of the issues that they
may be working on together as a group with an active contributor might make
sense, and be more targeted in focus?
On 27/04/2021, 12:45, "Manish G" <manish.c.ghildi...@gmail.com> wrote:
Contributor bootcamps can really help new people like me.
On Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 5:08 PM Jeremy Hanna <jeremy.hanna1...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> One thing we've done in the past is contributor bootcamps along with the
> the new contributor guide and the LHF complexity tickets. Unfortunately,
I
> don't know that the contributor bootcamps were ever recorded.
> Presentations were done to introduce people to the codebase generally (I
> think Gary did this at one point) as well as specific parts of the
> codebase, such as compaction. What if we broke up the codebase into
> categories and people could volunteer to do a short introduction to that
> part of the codebase in the form of a video screenshare. I don't think
> this would take the place of mentoring someone, but if we had
introductions
> to different parts of the codebase, I think it would lower the bar for
> interested contributors and scale the existing group more easily. Besides
> the codebase itself, we could also introduce things like CI practices or
> testing or documentation.
>
> > On Apr 24, 2021, at 12:49 AM, Benjamin Lerer <ble...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Everybody,The Apache Cassandra project always had some issues to
> > attract and retain new contributors. I think it would be great to change
> > this.According to the "How to Attract New Contributors" blog post (
> > https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-attract-new-contributors) having a
> good
> > onboarding process is a critical part. How to contribute should be
> obvious
> > and contributing should be as easy as possible for all the different
> types
> > of contributions: code, documentation, web-site or help with our CI
> > infrastructure.I would love to hear about your ideas on how we can
> improve
> > things.If you are new in the community, do not hesitate to share your
> > experience and your suggestions on what we can do to make it easier for
> you
> > to contribute.
>
>
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