#1991: Kinds of contributions (external volunteers)
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Reporter: cvvergara | Owner: live-demo@…
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: LiveDVD | Keywords:
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== kinds of contributions
|| Repository || Task
|| OSGeoLive-doc || Write a whole documentation page
|| OSGeoLive-doc || Update a whole documentation page
|| OSGeoLive-doc || Spelling/grammar/typos fixes
|| OSGeoLive || Creating script for installation
|| OSGeoLive || Updating script for installation
The contribution can be done by mail, because person, might be an external
volunteer that:
- Not know sphinx,
- Not want to create a github account
- Not know the directory structure and feel overwhelmed by it.
Example of contribution by mail:
- https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2017-June/012193.html
== Documenting Contributions
Currently, regardless of the kind of contribution, the name goes to the
contributing, treating all contributors at the same level.
=== Contribution process
The current process of receiving contributions of ''external volunteers''
is very complex.
- They make a PR
- Implied is that: the contributor has a github account
- Then "WE" ask to send a mail to osgeo live with the text:
"Hi all, I'd like to contribute XXX to OSGeo-Live. I confirm that my
contributions to OSGeo-Live will be compatible with the OSGeo-Live license
guidelines at the time of contribution."
- Contributor has to create an account in live-demo mailing list
- Sends the mail
- Then "WE" ask the contributor to add his/her name to the contributors
list
- Contributor, updates his PR with a commit for the name OR
- Contributor, updates makes another PR with the commit for the name OR
- This is recent: Contributor puts the sentence on the PR as a comment
Example based on my own experience:
- https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2016-July/011548.html
- https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/pull/202#issuecomment-306547274
- https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2017-June/012154.html
== Simple Contributions
I can have my whole family/friends be listed as contributor, just by
telling them:
- “Make an account on OSGeo,
- Make an account on GitHub,
- Put your name on contributors list
- Add a “comma”, as grammar fix of a very long sentence
- Put your name on contributors list
- do Pull Request.
- Send the mail, with the text about contributions.
- And you are done, your name will show as contributor!!!!”
Comparing with pgRouting, names of this kind of contributors are not
mentioned, instead:
“And all the people that give us a little of their time making comments,
finding issues, making pull requests etc.”
Example:
I asked a GSoC student to do this image verification on the Chinese
documentation of mapbender:
https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/pull/258
== My Conclusion
This Project relies heavily on ''external contributors'' for the scripts
and documentation of the included projects.
And, some contributors, for bug fixes, spelling & grammar fixes are really
constant, like Activityworkshop.
Treating occasional contributors to the same level of the other
contributors, does not seem fair.
**There is no policy about this** (that I could find)
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1991>
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