Contributor Experience: Plan

Contributor Experience Plan

Topics

Theme 1: Build up working groups
Theme 2: How to develop modules
Theme 3: PR(/issue) backlog

The Contributor Experience had a wide remit, though is currently focusing on the following:

Theme 1: Build up working groups
Theme 2: Make it clearer how to develop modules
Theme 3: Reduce issue/PR backlog

Discussion welcome in #ansible-community

Theme 1: Build up working groups

Objective: This is about scale and empowering others to do things themselves

A well functioning group should be able to:

Welcome new members into the group
Provide a variety of items for people to get involved with
Keep on top of their backlog
Set direction

Measure existing working groups

Goal: Find out if we are building up and maintaining active groups.

aka If we don't measure, how do we know if we are improving

Possible Metrics

Unique people active in IRC meetings
Number of people active on agenda issues

Blockers & pain points: Identify & document

Goal: Make life easier

Asking a wider range of people for pain points allows us to spot common issues and address them
Review previous Contributor Summit docs
Important to get input from new contributors

Share any best practices

The various groups have found things that work for them, we should review, document and roll out for other groups what works. If something doesn't work then analyse why not

"AWS: Monthly status" * Simple to do * Shows progress * Motivates
"Network: track actions on agenda"
Network First Gamification Exercise - Earn Ansible Swag!

Ensure each group has some way of showing what it's achieved

Goal: Showing progress keeps motivation

Motivates existing and new people
Such as AWS's boto3 porting and testing monthly stats

Ensure each group has a task list

Goal: Ensure that new people that want to get involved have something to help with

MUST include non-Python tasks
MUST include some well defined simple items

Identify and invite others to join

On hold till till above items have been done, we don't want to invite more people till the groups are in a better state

~~Ansibullbot to promote IRC Working groups #820~~ DONE
Standard slide and promotion to include in Meetups

Blog posts series on the cool things the groups are doing

On hold till till above items have been done

Series of blog posts, one per working group, showing what they've achieved and how to get involved.

Theme 2: How to develop modules

Objective:

Docs: dev_guide reorg to make it easier to create and write content (acozine is working on this)
Docs: Real examples on how to document your module
Docs: fix module checklist
Docs: How to write a good integration tests
Continue to spot common issues with new PRs and doc/automatically test them