On 2014-02-14 13:48, Russell Bryant wrote:
On 02/13/2014 08:53 AM, Sean Dague wrote:
The delays on reviews for relatively trivial fixes I think is
something that is probably more demotivating to new folks than the
lack of badges. So some ability to keep on top of that I think
would be really gre
On 02/13/2014 08:53 AM, Sean Dague wrote:
> The delays on reviews for relatively trivial fixes I think is
> something that is probably more demotivating to new folks than the
> lack of badges. So some ability to keep on top of that I think
> would be really great.
Sure, I agree. I still think bad
+1
Mentoring and devoted mentors and not demotivating new folks (but instead
"growing" and fostering them) is IMHO 10x more important than a badge program.
Badges seem nice and all but I think it's not the "biggest win for the buck".
Sent from my really tiny device...
> On Feb 13, 2014, at 6:0
> From: Sean Dague
...
> Realistically, the biggest issue I see with on-boarding is mentoring
> time. Especially with folks completely new to our structure, there is a
> lot of confusing things going on. And OpenStack is a ton to absorb. I
> get pinged a lot on IRC, answer when I can, and sometime
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Sean Dague wrote:
> On 02/13/2014 05:37 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> > Sandy Walsh wrote:
> >> The informal OpenStack motto is "automate everything", so perhaps we
> should consider some form of gamification [1] to help us? Can we offer
> badges, quests and challen
On 14 February 2014 02:53, Sean Dague wrote:
> So it seems like the only way we'd make real progress here is to get a
> chunk of people to devote some dedicated time to mentoring in the next
> cycle. Gamification might be most useful, but honestly I expect a "Start
> Here" page with the consolida
+1, nice idea, it could be really funny.
agreed with Thierry's note about automation.
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Sean Dague wrote:
> On 02/13/2014 05:37 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> > Sandy Walsh wrote:
> >> The informal OpenStack motto is "automate everything", so perhaps we
> should con
On 02/13/2014 05:37 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Sandy Walsh wrote:
>> The informal OpenStack motto is "automate everything", so perhaps we should
>> consider some form of gamification [1] to help us? Can we offer badges,
>> quests and challenges to new users to lead them on the way to being stron
Sandy Walsh wrote:
> The informal OpenStack motto is "automate everything", so perhaps we should
> consider some form of gamification [1] to help us? Can we offer badges,
> quests and challenges to new users to lead them on the way to being strong
> contributors?
>
> "Fixed your first bug" badg
+1 to Rohit. I am new too and looking forward to help in cinder part of
OpenStack for starters.
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Rohit Vaidya wrote:
> I am new to open stack and python. But I really liked the live community
> here and great suggestions that crop up. This one is seriously good
I am new to open stack and python. But I really liked the live community
here and great suggestions that crop up. This one is seriously good and
helps new people stay motivated. I installed dev stack on my sluggish
laptop and that's all. Could not move any further. Looking forward to
taking the nex
+1. This looks very interesting. :)
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Russell Bryant wrote:
> On 02/12/2014 11:35 AM, Ben Nemec wrote:
> > On 2014-02-12 12:00, Sandy Walsh wrote:
> >> At the Nova mid-cycle meetup we've been talking about the problem of
> >> helping new contributors. It got into
On 02/12/2014 11:35 AM, Ben Nemec wrote:
> On 2014-02-12 12:00, Sandy Walsh wrote:
>> At the Nova mid-cycle meetup we've been talking about the problem of
>> helping new contributors. It got into a discussion of karma, code
>> reviews, bug fixes and establishing a name for yourself before
>> scream
On 2014-02-12 12:00, Sandy Walsh wrote:
At the Nova mid-cycle meetup we've been talking about the problem of
helping new contributors. It got into a discussion of karma, code
reviews, bug fixes and establishing a name for yourself before
screaming in a chat room "can someone look at my branch". W
I¹m kind of new in Openstack.
+1 to this
On 12/02/14 15:00, "Sandy Walsh" wrote:
>At the Nova mid-cycle meetup we've been talking about the problem of
>helping new contributors. It got into a discussion of karma, code
>reviews, bug fixes and establishing a name for yourself before screaming
>i
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