[OOTB-hive] Volunteers wanted - Maintaining Community Support Tools

Mon Jan 9 10:19:36 GMT 2017

Hi all,

Have you any minutes or so from this meeting?

I was out last week.

Thanks,

Angel Borroy
keensoft

email:   angel.borroy at keensoft.es
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El 4 de enero de 2017 a las 22:10:43, Bindu Wavell (bindu at wavell.net) escribió:

OOTB Support Tools Kickoff 

Fri, Jan 6, 2017 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM MST 

Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone. 

https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/800374365 

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:35 PM Douglas C. R. Paes <douglascrp at gmail.com> wrote:
I won't participate on this as I'm traveling.
I hope you guys share a summary somewhere.

Em qua, 4 de jan de 2017 18:30, Axel Faust <axel.faust.g at googlemail.com> escreveu:
Happy mandatory new year everyone,

a short update on the quest for volunteers: counting myself we currently have four people interested in being core maintainers and two that want to chip in in the localisation area. This meets the minimum that I have set out initially. We are already planning to get together in a kind of kick-off session tentatively planned this Friday.
If anyone else has interest in participating as a maintainer in that project, feel free to respond at any time. If it is before Friday around 15:00 / 3 pm UTC we could include you in the web session.

On 21 December 2016 at 16:59, Axel Faust <axel.faust.g at googlemail.com> wrote:
Since I did communicate a date / deadline in the initial mail I will be open for (and respond to) additional replies until then.
If we have our minimum of volunteers (it looks good so far) when I get back from the holiday week at home, I'll likely start with some preparatory tasks right then (i.e. setup Gitter for volunteers/maintainer team, prepare/organise access to Maven Central, setup GitHub team etc). I may also check if/how we could use one of the localization-oriented sites to simplify that aspect and allow easier participation that way (similar to the language pack community for Alfresco). January might then be used to transfer ownership, publish first release (basically as-is state as "release candidate"), organise collaboration within the maintainer team and map out any actions for a first "real" release.

On 21 December 2016 at 15:32, Bindu Wavell <bindu at wavell.net> wrote:
OK,

Given that I would be like to be on the maintainer team for this support tools project...

Here are some of my qualifications for a position:
- Have a good sense of what will help folks support their implementations; I provide level 1 Alfresco support for a number of companies
- Have experience creating and maintaining open source projects; e.g. created and maintain generator-alfresco
- Experienced with technical mentoring; can help new team members provide valuable contributions
- Have a solid understanding of how to customize Alfresco; in many cases I'm opinionated about the right and wrong ways of doing things (this could be a detractor, but I hope I'm also pragmatic and rational ;) )
- US time zone coverage (this could also be a detractor ;) )

Here are my concerns:
- Minimal experience with community edition; specifically don't know a ton about differences with enterprise (other than the obvious stuff like clustering)
- Not much experience with localization
- Not much experience with complex net-new Web based UI stuff like canvases

I'm sure neither of these lists is comprehensive. Having said that I feel I could add value to the project and I could dedicate at least 1 to 2 hours per week on this project.

If you are interested in my participation, how would you like to proceed?

-- 
Bindu Wavell

From: Axel Faust <axel.faust.g at googlemail.com>
Reply: Axel Faust <axel.faust.g at googlemail.com>
Date: December 21, 2016 at 4:48:57 AM
To: Bindu Wavell <bindu at wavell.net>
CC: ootb-hive at xtreamlab.net <ootb-hive at xtreamlab.net>
Subject:  Re: [OOTB-hive] Volunteers wanted - Maintaining Community Support Tools

Hi all,

I wanted to keep the initial mail short since I already have a tendency to write longer mails than most people, so didn't include the tasks of a maintainer in the hope there is a common understanding. Also, I didn't want to scare anyone with my personal hopes / aspirations for community ownership - it is a process that the team of core maintainers for this project would pioneer and in some regards have to figure out how they can handle it in a sensible way.

With that in mind: personally, I would expect / like the team of core maintainers to:

- review / respond to issues, enhancement requests or PRs in a somewhat timely manner (open source project => no SLO but I would like to aim for 7-14 day limit for first reply)
- reproduce issues / help reporters work around them and plan long term resolution (again, no SLO but it would be great if identified issues are either resolved or at least provided with a workaround in 1-3 months)
- plan, assign, perform and track implementation tasks
-- implementation may be done by others but core maintainers review / decide what is merged into main line
-- localisation (as brought up by Angel and Douglas) would be an implementation task to be planned/assigned everytime a new feature is added with basic English I18n
-- potentially recruit / support other community members that want to collaborate to lighten the load / share responsibilities
- test / verify compatibility with new Alfresco releases, and plan any actions needed to achieve compatibility (again, no SLO but I would like to aim for 3-6 month limit for compatibility with new version unless major obstacles are found - for Community Support Tools I will check Alfresco 5.2 compatibility over the holiday season and expect at most 1-2 hours effort)
- generally be first contact for community members that have questions about the addon

I hope that doesn't scare too many of you...

Regards
Axel

On 21 December 2016 at 06:41, Bindu Wavell <bindu at wavell.net> wrote:
Hi Axel,

What would you expect from a maintainer of this add-on? I'm very interested in this work :) I'd like to see it owned by the community and I think this idea of having multiple maintainers makes a lot of sense.

On Dec 20, 2016 at 2:43 AM, Axel Faust <axel.faust.g at googlemail.com> wrote:
Yes, for the time being this is for this particular project. I do consider this a prototype / test bed though for when we may discuss / consider other projects and/or formalising requirements.

On 20 December 2016 at 08:46, Lanre Abiwon <el_gigantes at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
Just to be clear, you’re asking for a minimum of 3 core maintainers for the support tools project.
Not as the required minimum to host a project under the OOTBee?
I agree with Martin if it turns out to be the latter. If it is the former then 3 is a good start
and perhaps aspire to add more.

Lanre Abiwon
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