[Twisted-Python] revisiting onboarding

[Adi Roiban]

On 2 February 2015 at 19:18, Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
[snip]
> Candidates should submit an application to this new list,
> commit at twistedmatrix.com which is a list of links to at least 10 tickets, at
> least 5 of which are patches they've submitted, and at least 5 of which are
> code reviews they've done which have been accepted by a committer.  At least
> 2 of their authored patches should have gone all the way through the process
> to be landed.

I am not a supporter of private discussions for public projects... but
I am ok with having something.
I agree that Twisted general discussion
Open source contributors should take a rejection as an opportunity to improve.
Open source maintainer should not accept patches or add new
contributors just to be nice.

I would say that we should ask for 5 patches which were merged.
I find that 2 patches are too few.
Also 2 patches for cleanup jobs are fine, but I don't think that they
are enough.

> As with the other parts of our process, if there is at least one sponsor,
> and no objections from anyone on the committee within 7 days, any member of
> the committee may add the committer.
>
> New committers should then be announced on the mailing list.
>
> This is not really an ideal process - particularly, it lacks a good way to
> give contributors something specific and useful to do - but it's something
> at least.  If there is general assent that this is an improvement, I'll go
> make a wiki page and a mailing list.

Should be a start and much better than current process.

As soon as the committee is in place I will apply for commit rights to
practice the process and also validate that I deserve the commit
right.
Meanwhile I will start recording my activity.

For new contributors, I suggest that they can create a wiki page to
keep track of the tickets.

I have no idea how you can use Trac report to give you a list of
tickets you have reviewer or you have contributed patches to.

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Since some Twisted related project are on GitHub it would be nice to
discuss some direction about how to get edit rights for those
projects.

Thanks!
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Adi