Re: Tracking Someone's First Contribution

2017-11-09 Thread Christopher
That's exactly what we are doing in Fluo. We ask if it's okay to tweet about their contribution, and what their Twitter handle is, if it is okay. On Thu, Nov 9, 2017, 06:02 sebb wrote: > I think you should ask the person first. > Not all will want such publicity. > > On 9 November 2017 at 09:48,

Re: Tracking Someone's First Contribution

2017-11-09 Thread Piergiorgio Lucidi
+1 from me and I agree with sebb about the conservative approach for asking permission before spreading out. Anyway this morning I have just retweet, from the Apache Community Twitter account, the tweet about the first contribution on Apache Fluo: https://twitter.com/ApacheFluo/status/928390577816

Re: Tracking Someone's First Contribution

2017-11-09 Thread Ignasi Barrera
Right. We usually ask for a twitter handle and if they're ok with us tweeting about the contribution because you "officially" only have, at most, a contributor email. That small conversation asking to publicly thank them for the contribution has been always very positive and very well received, an

Re: Tracking Someone's First Contribution

2017-11-09 Thread sebb
I think you should ask the person first. Not all will want such publicity. On 9 November 2017 at 09:48, Jacques Le Roux wrote: > +1 Great idea! > > Jacques > > > > Le 09/11/2017 à 10:38, Ignasi Barrera a écrit : >> >> I think it is a great way to encourage people to contribute. >> >> In Apache jc

Re: Tracking Someone's First Contribution

2017-11-09 Thread Jacques Le Roux
+1 Great idea! Jacques Le 09/11/2017 à 10:38, Ignasi Barrera a écrit : I think it is a great way to encourage people to contribute. In Apache jclouds we always tweet about new contributors and also about significant contributions made to the code base. We've found this always motivates the co

Re: Tracking Someone's First Contribution

2017-11-09 Thread Ignasi Barrera
I think it is a great way to encourage people to contribute. In Apache jclouds we always tweet about new contributors and also about significant contributions made to the code base. We've found this always motivates the contributor. We also have a "Credits" section in our release notes pages for a

Tracking Someone's First Contribution

2017-11-09 Thread Sharan Foga
Hi All I've contacted the Apache Fluo project because I've seen that consistently on Twitter they highlight someone's first contribution to the project. This is something that could be quite interesting for projects to promote so I've sent them a message to ask how they are doing it! Are any