Community Manager Meeting June 5, 2019
First meeting of the community managers for the 2019 term
Today the first meeting of the Gerrit Community Managers took place in an online meeting. This post contains a short summary of the topics that were covered.
Attendees
Edwin Kempin, Marco Miller, Matthias Sohn
Place/Date/Duration
Online meeting, June 5, 17:00-18:00 CET
Minutes
Community manager role
- like a Scrum master for the Gerrit community
- support the community and the ESC
- help to remove impediments, try to identify them pro-actively
- time we can spend: 10-25%
Working mode
- Regular online meeting, target weekly
- Agenda and notes are kept private since they may contain sensitive information
- Minutes will be published
Backlog and communication
- Backlog in new component “Community” in issue tracker
- Establish a dedicated google group for discussions with community managers, sensitive topics need private group, explore what is supported by google groups, see issue 40010768
Introduce community managers
- added list of community managers to the members page of the Gerrit website
- will post introduction on repo-discuss once dedicated google group is available
Measure community satisfaction
- consider surveys, discussion to be continued, see issue 40010771
- community retrospective similar to a scrum retrospective planned for user summit in Gothenburg on 29-30th August, see issue 40010774
- consider community retrospective after releases
- gather experience with the retrospective planned for user summit Gothenburg
- do retrospective face to face at hackathon
- publish results as Gerrit change and let everyone comment and contribute further ideas in the review
Possibilities to better align Gerrit community with JGit and Bazel communities
- Bazel conference in Mountain View and Gerrit user summit in Sunnyvale both planned for Nov
- invite a Bazel talk to the Gerrit user summit in Sunnyvale, see issue 40010773
- invite for JGit presentations at Gerrit user summits, see issue 40010772
- EclipseCon Europe Oct 21-24 would be another opportunity to meet JGit committers and contributors
Code of conduct
- consider introducing a code of conduct for the Gerrit project, discussion to be done, see issue 40010775