On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 at 22:50, Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> wrote: > > 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?)
almost all communications are already at mentors@community :) > 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. > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > -- Best regards, Maxim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
