Adding new Adoption Group Members

[Mario Torre]

I was about to write the same.

Cheers,
Mario

2015-01-29 19:50 GMT+01:00 Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com>:

> Hi Dalibor,
>
> Sounds good - lets have a chat about some possible project ideas at FOSDEM.
>
> Cheers,
> Martijn
>
> On 29 January 2015 at 18:40, dalibor topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com>
> wrote:
>
> > With roughly one year since the creation of this Group behind us, it's
> > almost about the first time that we can begin to consider adding new
> Group
> > Members. As the guidelines for adding new Group Members say, [0]
> >
> >  "As a rough guide, a Contributor should be regularly active in a Group
> or
> > its sponsored Projects for at least a year before being nominated to be a
> > Group Member."
> >
> > So the first question to answer is: What does being active mean?
> >
> > We had a discussion of what being active means when we started to
> document
> > this Group's activities for the purpose of compiling its Quarterly
> Reports.
> > [1] In short, being active means one or more of
> >
> > a) editing the Group's wiki
> > b) actively participating in conversations on the Group's mailing lists
> > c) being active in the Group's sponsored Projects
> >
> > For any Group, a) is not going to be an interesting activity to consider
> > when evaluating the activity of potential new Group Members, as only
> Group
> > Members can edit a Group's wiki.
> >
> > In the case of the Adoption Group, c) is not interesting for this purpose
> > either, as this Group does not sponsor any Projects (so far). [2]
> >
> > That leaves b) as the criterion to apply. There is only one mailing list
> > to consider: this one. So that's actually rather easy.
> >
> > The next question is, what constitutes regular activity?
> >
> > Or, in the case of the mailing lists, how often should a Contributor
> > actively participate in conversations to be considered regularly active
> in
> > the Group?
> >
> > This Group's Quarterly Reports give us a rough idea about the level of
> > activity on the mailing lists - they range from 128 mails in the first
> > quarter of 2014 to 136 in the last. Roughly speaking, that's about 1-1.5
> > mails per day.
> >
> > The number of Participants (excluding current Group Members) actively
> > taking part in this Group's discussions has ranged from 10 in the first
> > quarter of 2014 to 14 in the last.
> >
> > One would expect a regularly active Participant desiring to become a
> Group
> > Member to beat the average, so they should be active on the list at least
> > every 10-21 days. In other words, they'd have sent at least 2-3 e-mails
> to
> > the list every month for a year, related to the Group's mission &
> > activities.
> >
> > So, let's look at the data from the mailing list archives to see if we
> > have any potential candidates with 2, or 3 regular postings to their
> belt:
> >
> > For January 2015 (so far [3]), Chris (3 posts) and Balchandra (6) would
> > meet the minimal bar. For December, Ben (5) & Balchandra (8) would meet
> it.
> > For November, it would be Patrick (8) & Balchandra (6). And so on.
> >
> > What one can see from the data is that activity is not something most
> > Participants sustain on a regular basis.
> >
> > To some degree, that is to be expected in open source communities in
> > general, and an Adoption Group in particular, which acts as a
> pass-through
> > channel for new Participants to other Projects.
> >
> > What the data suggests though, is that there won't be very many new
> > candidates for Group Members for a while. Rather than lowering the
> > standards of what constitutes regular activity in the Adoption Group, I'd
> > suggest drawing a line at what constitutes 'minimal viable activity' on
> the
> > mailing lists for Contributors who wish to become this Group's Members,
> and
> > writing it down on the wiki.
> >
> > cheers,
> > dalibor topic
> >
> > [0] http://openjdk.java.net/groups/#group-member
> > [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/adoption-discuss/
> > 2014-February/000065.html
> > [2] http://openjdk.java.net/census#adoption
> > [3] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/adoption-discuss/
> > 2015-January/author.html#start
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