Hi, folks, As discussed various times on Slack, I am planning to create some concrete, practical advice to our project communities about how to grow their developer communities. I've put a bullet list here - https://community.apache.org/communitybuilding/ - and will be developing that over the coming year (I hope).
I have become more than a little concerned about trends that I'm seeing across the Foundation: Super-high committer bars with no real justification; Ignoring contributors, who then eventually go away in frustration; Off-list discussions that are then never discussed in the view of the community; Committer/PMC elections influenced by company affiliation/role rather than by public discussion. I am hoping that we can address some of these by education, and by having "official" pages that we can point to when projects are learning how to be ASF projects. Yes, some of this happens in the Incubator. My concern is post- incubator, when the decision-makers on the project arrives post- incubator, and so don't benefit from that experience. A second- generation problem, you might say. Anyways, as always, I welcome and appreciate your participation in writing this stuff, and in organizing it. Thanks. --Rich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
