On 14 February 2014 07:06, Victoria MartÃnez de la Cruz < victo...@vmartinezdelacruz.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I think we should separate between mentoring efforts and documentation. > > For the first one, is true that there are always tons of tasks to do but > sometimes a beginner won't find them because they are not familiar with the > workflow neither with the community. People that is not involved with > open-source just doesn't know where to start when reaching to an > organization of this kind. So, having someone to ask about this is usually > a great help. That is something OpenHatch is intended to solve. > > I must say that OpenHatch is not time consuming and helped several people > to join OpenStack and start contributing to it. And that is great :) > > Another thing we tried last year is #openstack-101, a channel for new > contributors where they are free to ask any doubt they could have. I'm > happy to say this worked as a hub between newcomers and the community and > that lots of people have been able to start working with us. > > About documentation, I agree that it could be quite overwhelming the first > time, but that is how complex our organization is. The thing is... we get > used to that. > > Perhaps we could ask new contributors what they would like to find in the > 'How to contribute' wiki page and refine it to make it easier for new > people (I volunteer for that!). > > Finally, I wanted to mention that mentoring is great. I still have many > things to learn, but I have been able to guide people with their first > steps in the community and is cool to see how a little effort like that > mean, later in time, great contributions. > > Thanks all for the feedback, > > Victoria > > It has probably been mentioned before and I missed it but, where can people find these mentors you talk about? This should be mentioned in pages like: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HowToContribute https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/DevQuickstart https://swiftstack.com/blog/2013/02/12/swift-for-new-contributors/ > > > 2014-02-13 23:46 GMT-03:00 Luis de Bethencourt <l...@debethencourt.com>: > >> On 13 February 2014 21:09, Jeremy Stanley <fu...@yuggoth.org> wrote: >> >>> On 2014-02-12 14:42:17 -0600 (-0600), Dolph Mathews wrote: >>> [...] >>> > There's a lot of such scenarios where new contributors can >>> > quickly find things to contribute, or at lest provide incredibly >>> > valuable feedback to the project in the form of reviews! >>> [...] >>> >>> I heartily second the suggestion. The biggest and best thing I did >>> as a new contributor was to start reviewing changes first thing. An >>> initial contributor, if they have any aptitude for software >>> development at all, will be able to tell a ton about our development >>> community by how it interacts through code review. The test-centric >>> methodology, style guidelines and general level of >>> acceptance/tolerance for various things become immediately apparent. >>> You also get to test your understanding of the source by watching >>> all the mistakes other reviewers find that you missed in your >>> reviewing. Refine and repeat. >>> >>> Getting a couple of very simple changes in right away also helps you >>> pick up the workflow and toolset, but reviewing others changes is a >>> huge boon to both the project and the would-be contributors doing >>> the reviewing... much more so than correcting a handful of >>> typographical errors. >>> -- >>> Jeremy Stanley >>> >> >> >> That is a very good idea Jeremy. >> >> I started learning and contributing to OpenStack yesterday. I have been >> writing down all the things I do, read and discover. Planning to blog about >> and share it. I think it would be valuable to show how to contribute and >> learn the project from the point of view of a novice to it. >> >> Cheers, >> Luis >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >
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