Sharan has done a good job shining a spotlight on something that has created a weird bottleneck in the project. Docs and the Cassandra website are all in-tree, but it takes somebody who probably isn't even working on those things to commit any changes. Dinesh nailed it. It's silly. I'm sure the PMC can come up with a reasonable solution that can be done quickly. There are a lot of us that love this project that contribute in ways that don't get compiled into a jar file. This is something that needs to be solved for the sake of project velocity.
Patrick On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 10:28 PM Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote: > > Thank you Sharan for sharing. > > >> So here in Apache Cassandra I see there is a whole lot of activity >> happening around the website, marketing, project promotion, blogs, social >> media - these activities are all contributions to the project. If there are >> contributions happening in the project that need a committer to action, >> then it could make sense to consider having committers that are focussed >> around the 'non coding' parts. >> >> >> > > This is so true for us. We are spending a lot of extra time getting these > non-code contributions across the finish line. The context switching and > wait time involved in just one more handover, and often across time zones, > is hurting. And regardless, totally agree we should be formally recognising > the ongoing work that goes into these non-coding contributions. > >
