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[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Dalibor,

I like that approach, I'll draft an email and perhaps we can send those to
the 'easier' groups first, i.e. Not hotspot or a port or an updates etc.

Cheers,
Martijn

On 19 February 2015 at 17:12, dalibor topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 02.02.2015 19:49, Martijn Verburg wrote:
>
>> Hi Iris,
>>
>> Thank you for figuring this all out! I'm going to go back to our group
>> and see if we would like to propose a change in the Bylaws to allow
>> Adoption Group members access.
>>
>
> It's much easier to become an Author on a given Project (two sponsored
> contributions [0], maybe a month of work), than a Member of any Group [1]
> (regular activity for a year). So I don't think that would be very useful
> in practice.
>
> In addition, Project specific tasks like triage require expertise in the
> specific Project. For example, I would not consider myself particularly
> well equipped to pick out the low hanging fruit for, say, the Aarch64 Port,
> as that's not something I work on.
>
> So rather than going through JBS to find things for someone to do, I think
> it would be more useful to find out which Projects already have such tasks,
> and then to collect a set of links on our wiki to them.
>
> That way, we'd direct people wanting to do something to Projects that have
> something specific for them to do, rather than hoping that our pick of a
> low hanging fruit at a given time aligns with a specific Project's
> schedule, reviewer interest, availability and priorities at the later time
> when a developer actually shows up.
>
> That's something individual Projects are better equipped to judge than the
> Adoption Group.
>
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
>
> [0] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#project-author
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/groups/#group-member
>
>
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