Thanks for the feedback! I've revised to take it into account. I'll try to reply inline to indicate how.
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 1:02 AM Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 10:35 PM Kenneth Knowles <k...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 8:51 AM Bertrand Delacretaz < > bdelacre...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > >... Feel free to draft your blog post and we can then review and > publish! > > I've drafted it.... > > Thank you, I reviewed [1] and it looks great to me! > > I have just 3 minor comments: > > -Add a link to the committer guidelines that you mention > The first sentence of the paragraph on that was a link. Something about my source is making most links not render. I got this one working, but many others are not. I'll figure that out... > -IIUC when you say "Every ~month" it means "about every month" - that > was not obvious to me initially > Changed to "about every month" > -for RTC and CTR you might link to > https://www.apache.org/foundation/glossary.html Done (but link is not yet working per above) > > -Bertrand On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 5:11 PM Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> wrote: > I realize that this message might be hard to read since copy/paste > formatting is gone. So here goes my attempt to clarify... > > On Jan 7, 2019, at 8:28 AM, Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Kenn, > > Thanks for contributing this. I think it's a nice introduction to Beam's > community building efforts. > > Here are a couple of comments: > > > We want our contributor-base (hence committer-base) to be more spread > across companies and backgrounds, for the usual Apache reasons. > > I'd elaborate instead of saying "for the usual Apache reasons". Which > reasons are important to Beam? > Done. > > (we have committers from community development, tech writing, training, > etc). > > I'd make this a sentence of its own. > Agree. Done. > > you shouldn't be proposing a committer for other reasons, > > I don't understand "for other reasons". > > > Every ~month, we call for new discussions and revisit ~all prior > discussions. > > I find the "~" to be distracting. Words please. > Done. > For a potential committer, we did this: > > It's not clear to me when a person becomes a potential committer. Is it in > the "repeat contributor" phase? > > > For an early contributor, > > Perhaps move this paragraph above the "For a potential committer" > paragraph? > Done. I think re-ordering and slight rephrase helped. > ~3~4 obvious committer candidates > As above, remove "~". > Done. "a few" > If we have no feedback about which guidelines were a concern, that is a > red flag that we are being driven by bias. > > I don't understand this. Lack of concern might be considered a "good > thing" not a red flag. > Rephrased: "Formulating this feedback is important for helping contributors to learn, but it also serves as a check against bias and politics. If we found ourselves unable to specify such feedback, that is a sign that we are deciding for a reason other than those we have declared and agreed upon." > as RMS says > > Who/what <https://teams.googleplex.com/u/what> is RMS? > Rephrased and spelled out his name. I'll keep trying to figure out what is going on with the links, and if you know the answer please share it! Kenn > > Regards, > > Craig > >> On Jan 4, 2019, at 1:49 PM, Kenneth Knowles <k...@apache.org <mailto: > k...@apache.org>> wrote: > >> > >> Here it is: > >> > https://blogs.apache.org/roller-ui/authoring/preview/comdev/?previewEntry=an-approach-to-community-building > < > https://blogs.apache.org/roller-ui/authoring/preview/comdev/?previewEntry=an-approach-to-community-building > > > >> > >> Kenn > >> > >> On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 1:44 PM Griselda Cuevas <g...@google.com.invalid > > > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Where could we find it? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 13:35, Kenneth Knowles <k...@apache.org> wrote: > >>> > >>>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 8:51 AM Bertrand Delacretaz < > >>>> bdelacre...@apache.org> > >>>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Feel free to draft your blog post and we can then review and publish! > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> I've drafted it. It is pretty long but still feels terse to me. > Feedback > >>>> very welcome on that point. I will try to find time to give it another > >>>> pass, unless someone tells me that it is fine as-is. > >>>> > >>>> Kenn > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -Bertrand > >>>>> > >>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > >>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>> > > > > Craig L Russell > > Secretary, Apache Software Foundation > > c...@apache.org <mailto:c...@apache.org> http://db.apache.org/jdo < > http://db.apache.org/jdo> > > Craig L Russell > Secretary, Apache Software Foundation > c...@apache.org <mailto:c...@apache.org> http://db.apache.org/jdo < > http://db.apache.org/jdo> >