Thanks, Rich. projects.a.o is in dire need of updating, as evidenced by the many responses I received this morning following https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary ("milestone anniversaries" has since been updated)
None/most of the Jakarta projects are represented properly. Need to find a better way to represent this. Cheers. - - - Vice President Marketing & Publicity Vice President Sponsor Relations The Apache Software Foundation Tel +1 617 921 8656 | s...@apache.org On Thu, Mar 26, 2020, at 08:54, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > On 3/25/20 8:06 AM, Sally Khudairi wrote: > > Hello ComDev-ers --I'm hoping you can help. > > > > I use https://projects.apache.org/ regularly, at least once a week, and > > find this resource as a whole to be quite beneficial. > > > > However, there are some inconsistencies: some Apache Projects are not > > listed. Others have out-dated descriptions/DOAPs. There are wonky > > categories for which some Projects have self-identified. > > > > There are opportunities to improve the classification of categories under > > which our Projects are listed. For example, adding new categories, such as > > Geospatial, which was added during Media & Analyst Training in Montreal. > > Some Projects don't know about this page; others weren't aware that they > > could update it themselves. Some who wanted to update didn't know how, as > > was the instance with the Geospatial folks. Heck, I have no idea how this > > is done. > > > > I'm wondering if it make sense to move projects.apache.org under the M&P > > umbrella? This way we can help hone in on its look/feel; how > > projects/categories are presented (or not), which data points are > > highlighted, and so on. > > > > I'd love to discuss options and see what we can do. To that end, with whom > > shall I be talking to? > > > > Many thanks in advance for your help with this --I look forward to hearing > > from you! > > One of the things on my Apache To Do list, which starts at the > expiration of my board term (Next week!) is to "visit" each of our > projects and update a list of things, which includes: > > * Ensure that https://whimsy.apache.org/site/ is green across the board > * Ensure that data on projects.apache.org is present, useful, accurate > * Possibly record a Feathercast ("But what does it actually do?") > > After I've done a handful of these (or, rather, as I do them) my hope is > to create some docs/process for other ComDev folks who want to play > along, so that this doesn't take the rest of my life. > > This process needs to be done in such a way that projects don't feel > "managed", but that the person doing it is acting as a beginner project > participant, with no authority, so to speak - just another volunteer. > (We've had complaints in the past that ComDev is somehow imposing its > will when we have proposed any kind of requirements.) > > I mention all of this to say that it's something that we (ComDev) have > looked at, and just not had time time or volunteers to make happen yet. > > I don't know if this is useful in terms of what you're trying to > accomplish. The problem of "Some who wanted to update didn't know how" > is pretty much universal, because we don't have an effective way to > communicate this to all projects, and it's not happening in the > Incubator for whatever reason (Another thing we can possibly fix going > forward? I don't know. I don't spent much time at the Incubator.) > > I continue to see the role of ComDev as educational and inward-facing, > and hope that in the coming months I can spend my "Apache Time" working > that angle. > > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com > http://rcbowen.com/ > @rbowen > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
