[kde-promo] Fwd: Digest in trouble?

[Vladislav Blanton]

Hey Team,

I'm really glad that you brought this up, Danny. I have been thinking about
it myself, as we all have. I agree with Jos, that we probably could use a
constant influx of newcomers to join in on the process of writing the commit
digest. I agree with Marco, as well, that any way to technically make the
process automatic without minimizing the digest's capacity to highlight
important commits is excellent. However, the important thing to remember
that no matter how much Danny makes the process easier, there will always be
manual work on our behalf that is necessary too.

Myself, I have been swamped with my final semester in college and completing
my thesis work. I found myself reviewing 100-1000's of commits and doing the
reviewing (often on my own) became daunting -- hence why I slipped out over
the last couple weeks.
Alexander and Marco, it would be great if you could both jump back into the
review process again. I will also try to set aside an evening a week to chip
in as well. Marta, your work has been great, thank you so much.

So, the answer? Perhaps following some of Jos's suggestions..

Vlad

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Jos Poortvliet <jos at opensuse.org> wrote:

> On 30.09.2011 Anne wrote:
> > On Friday, September 30, 2011 04:09:44 PM Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > > Heya all: I think it makes sense to give an announcement on the dot
> > > about the CD needing some more hands. I also think it should be a
> > > 'default' part of the weekly CD announcements on the dot.
> > >
> > > Who's up for writing a 'please help us'?
> > >
> > > ----- Forwarded Message -----
> <snip>
>
> > Shouldn't we start some weekly IRC workshops to teach people on what
> > to do (personally I registered an account but was unclear on what
> > exactly to do) That would also create a team feeling and a network
> > of people who could motivate each other.
>
> If it is hard to find out how to contribute we have an issue - that's
> something to fix. I'm sure Danny would want to hear any suggestions on
> improving the process of getting involved.
>
>
> To give the need for help more attention, I've added the following to
> the commit digest of this week:
>
> "The Commit Digest team needs help! Please go to <a href="http://commit-
> digest.org/contribute/">commit-digest.org/contribute</a> to see what you
> can do."
>
> And we should add that from now on. The possibility to contribute could
> also be made more prominent on the commit-digest website.
>
> Finally, Carl offered to write something about the commit-digest on the
> dot. The comment by Marco Krohn on this blog by Stuart [1] is a pretty
> good start for a how-to for the dot and if we add to that some news on
> recent improvements (Danny?) I think we can give this enough attention
> to gain some new contributors.
>
> I think what's important is to realize that recruiting contributors is a
> continuous process - people always leave and thus you always need new
> blood. A tip there: welcome newcomers personally and check up on them
> once in a while! This works very well if one of you (on the digest ML)
> is willing to pick THAT up as a task: welcome (and if needed, help) new
> contributors. Moreover, hang out on IRC if you can, maybe organize a
> commit digest sprint at some point to hack together some features and
> catch up with digests. Lots of possibilities for some teambuilding...
> Think about it :D
>
> Jos
>
> > Anne-Marie
> >
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