On 2023/03/16 15:40:12 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.
>
> 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.
I absolutely agree, paring back, simplifying, and re-organizing the overwhelming
amount of information available, would make it much easier to get started, and
stay
involved.
>
> 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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I'd be happy to help with this also.
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