Hi, folks, I have tried to write this email several times, and keep getting overwhelmed. Trying again.
Comdev has no focus. Our website is a mess. We have no clear idea of what we do. I would like to get back to basics, and figure out what it actually is that we do here, and get rid of the stuff that we don't. For example: Looking at the website, we claim we have a mentoring program. This is not true, and I'd like to cull that entire part of the site. But I don't want to step on people who might actually want to do that work. And that's just one example. A while back (2017) I rather over-optimistically wrote https://community.apache.org/about/ which was a list of things that I hoped that we might do some day. That was a mistake, because it makes promises that nobody is following up on. I want to get back to our mandate: Provide a wide array of information, FAQs, and help to newcomers and existing committers, and maintains a number of helpful tools. We should be a repository for useful information and best practice for people at all levels of our community: newcomers; contributors; committers; pmcs. The tools that we presumably maintain include: projects.a.o reporter.a.o helpwanted (I think this is EOL, realistically) We facilitate Apache Local Communities (which does not appear to be references on the website?) And we also facilitate GSoC I would like to refocus our website, and our efforts, around those things, and drop everything else from our website, until and unless someone actually steps up to do them. And, yes, I'm volunteering to do this work, but want to be sure I'm not taking too much authority in doing so. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
