Hey, ComDev folks, Sebb sent the below to board@ earlier today, and I took it upon myself to ping some of these projects, in the hopes that we can get better data about our projects.
It's bugged me for a while how many of our projects have meaningless descriptions, and it's been on my list for a long time to go around and encourage/help these projects to write better descriptions, so that beginners can have some notion of what they are looking at. Sebb's email looks like a really great place to start. So, I'm working through this list: https://boxofclue.com/doap_projects.txt by sending each project a reminder of the process, and the reasons it matters (See https://hackmd.io/AtAuQ60JRbWcH8-OsCHccQ for my template). I am not planning to do all of these at once, so if someone else wanted to pick up at some other point in the list and work through, that would be fine - just report back so we don't gang up on any PMC. *Hopefuly* we'll either start seeing some new DOAP files, or we'll see some feedback here on this list about problems encountered. Thanks, again, Sebb, for your attention to detail. --Rich On Tue, 2023-09-05 at 00:19 +0100, sebb wrote: > I've done a check of the PMCs that have no active DOAPs, as listed by > projects.apache.org. > > There are 59 of them [1], which is about 28% of the total. > > That means a lot of ASF PMCs are not fully represented in the project > listings. > > The DOAPs provide various useful data about ASF projects, and the > project listings may help PMCs attract contributors who are looking > for a project to support, so it is a shame that a large proportion of > PMCs are not represented. > > Maybe it would be a good idea to remind these PMCs that DOAPs can be > helpful to the health of their project? > > There is a guide [2] for creating DOAPs. > > Sebb > [1] Search the page > https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?committee for the string > '(0)' > [2] https://projects.apache.org/create.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
