On Apr 8, 2016, at 1:57 PM, Major Hayden <ma...@mhtx.net> wrote: > > On 04/08/2016 03:31 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote: >> Thanks for taking this up--some people just need >> encouragement/suggestions for better ways to make an impact. On the >> other hand, if you find that many of them have addresses at the same >> company domain... well I guess we can find people higher up the >> ladder in those companies and talk to them about how to channel >> their employee quotas/incentives in more productive directions for >> the community as well. > > Hey folks, > > I have sent five emails so far and I received two responses already. Both of > the people who replied said they are new to OpenStack and how to do reviews. > They welcomed more input on how to find the right code reviews and how to > complete the review. They weren't aware that these particular contributions > were seen as unhelpful or gaming the system.
First, thanks Major for reaching out and asking questions. Having just caught this thread, I was a bit startled by the assumption of ill-intent vs. a straight-up “Hey, this seems silly. Why are they doing this? We should ask!” That’s a bummer attitude for us to launch out with. I’m glad to see a few folks approach it as, “They probably don’t know” and offer blog posts. Might be good to get some of these incorporated into https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/How_To_Contribute <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/How_To_Contribute> so that n00bs (like me) get guidance early. I can’t speak for others, but I can say I’ve made it abundantly clear in my org that Stackalytics isn’t a useful or interesting metric beyond knowing where we’re contributing (and not). As a leaderboard, it’s untrustworthy because there’s no guarantee that any contribution it tracks is making value for OpenStack operators or users. I suspect that we’re reflecting on attitudes past, but I could be wrong. > Would it make sense to encourage cores/PTLs on these projects to reach out to > these users and share gerrit dashboard[1] links? A PTL shared some of these > with me and it certainly helped me focus better on the right reviews. > > [1] https://github.com/openstack/gerrit-dash-creator > <https://github.com/openstack/gerrit-dash-creator> That seems smart in general. Most of the projects have a getting started page; I like the Nova one[1] because it calls out reviews as a good way to start familiarizing yourself with the code, and points out their code review guide[2]. Always good to see you, Major. Big fan of your work. =] —j [1] http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/how_to_get_involved.html <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/how_to_get_involved.html> [2] http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/code-review.html#code-review <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/code-review.html#code-review>
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