On 3/16/23 10:40, rbo...@rcbowen.com wrote:
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.
I completely agree here, this is a perennial request. Comdev is woefully
oversubscribed to unmaintained projects and initiatives and needs to be
reigned in to a manageable size.
I would (again, I've mentioned it over the years) really love for us to
establish some sort of BoM here: Which projects do we currently have,
which do we have people actively or willing to actively maintain, and
which projects should we scrap. I believe getting this clarified would
be a great help.
As a sort of aside, I'd also like for GSOC to be moved to a separate
list from dev@community (gsoc@community? maybe some generic term for
these events?) as well as moved out of the COMDEV Jira space. It is
quite frankly littering the mailing list with messages that do not
pertain to 90% of the subscribers.
As with Rich, I am also very much willing to help with this.
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.
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