Hi, I'll be glad to offer my help on such an idea.
I've been a commiter on the Maven project since about 2 years and I remember my fistrs contributions and first challenges with it. So I'll be happy to help others with similar journeys. I think that not only the first wellcome is important but also the usual collaboration with contributors. śr., 7 lut 2024 o 17:53 Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> napisał(a): > Proposed: A formal working group around how we welcome new folks in a > consistent and helpful manner. > > We get people on this list (and on every dev@ and user@ list at the > foundation) asking how to get engaged. We almost always give them unhelpful > answers, and send them off to go figure it out on their own. > > The Welcome WG would write documentation, and process, around welcoming > these new folks, and shepherding them towards engagement. This would > include, but not be limited to: > > * Guiding projects towards the incubator. This includes the “why would you > want to be at Apache? Why would you *NOT* fit at Apache?” documentation > that we really don’t have yet. > * Guiding brand-new contributors towards how, and where, to contribute. > This may include working with some of our more welcoming projects to figure > out best practice, and our less-welcoming projects to figure out why they > are and help them fix that. > * Working with second-time contributors to encourage best practice. (See > https://mikemcquaid.com/stop-mentoring-first-time-contributors/ for > thoughts on first- vs second-time contributors) > * Crafting boilerplate answers to send to folks who show up asking for > help getting involved, so that we don’t continue this practice of unhelpful > “go figure it out on your own” responses. > * Maybe work on some kind of a badging program (See > https://badges.fedoraproject.org/ if you don’t know what I mean by that) > to incentivize and gamify community engagement, for reasons that I would > love to talk much more about, but are beyond the scope of this proposal. > > What do y’all think? > > — > Rich Bowen > rbo...@rcbowen.com > > > > > -- Sławomir Jaranowski
