Adding new Adoption Group Members

Thu Jan 29 21:45:32 UTC 2015

That sounds good
On Jan 29, 2015 4:56 PM, "Mario Torre" <neugens.limasoftware at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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