[DISCUSS] Proposal for a December event

[Benjamin Lerer <bl...@apache.org>]

Hi everybody,

I would like to take the occasion of the month of December and of the
holiday seasons to attract new contributors and to create more visibility
for the project.
I was thinking of creating some kind of Advent calendar on Twitter where we
promote a simple ticket everyday for a newcomer to pickup. The ticket
should have the main steps described and some mentor associated with it. If
by the 1st of March the patch for the ticket has been committed the
contributor will receive a special T-shirt as a gift.

I will be happy to hear your opinion on this proposal,

Benjamin

Re: [DISCUSS] Proposal for a December event

[jogesh anand <jo...@gmail.com>]

I like the idea, think it’s a great way to attract new comers.. ( newcomer
here)

On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 9:13 AM, Benjamin Lerer <bl...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I would like to take the occasion of the month of December and of the
> holiday seasons to attract new contributors and to create more visibility
> for the project.
> I was thinking of creating some kind of Advent calendar on Twitter where we
> promote a simple ticket everyday for a newcomer to pickup. The ticket
> should have the main steps described and some mentor associated with it. If
> by the 1st of March the patch for the ticket has been committed the
> contributor will receive a special T-shirt as a gift.
>
> I will be happy to hear your opinion on this proposal,
>
> Benjamin
>
-- 

*Regards,*

*Jogesh Anand*

Re: [DISCUSS] Proposal for a December event

[Ekaterina Dimitrova <e....@gmail.com>]

Hi Manish,
Please feel free to assign any of those tickets that is not yet assigned to
anyone else and you are interested in. They are under label
AdventCalendar2021lhf in Jira
Please don’t hesitate to ask any questions you might have.

Have fun!
Ekaterina

On Sat, 11 Dec 2021 at 15:39, Manish G <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to work on these tickets for newcomers.
>
> With regards
> Manish
>
> On Fri, Dec 3, 2021, 2:17 PM Paulo Motta <pa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Here is my contribution to the advent calendar effort (I'm willing to
> > mentor these tickets):
> > - CASSANDRA-16436: Add startup check for large read_ahead_kb setting [1]
> > - CASSANDRA-16664: Log JVM Arguments at in-JVM Test Class Initialization
> > [2]
> > - CASSANDRA-16584: Allow sstableloader to specify keyspace/table without
> > relying on path [3]
> >
> > [1] - <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16436>
> > [2] - <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16664>
> > [3] - <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16584>
> >
> > Em qui., 25 de nov. de 2021 às 13:50, Benjamin Lerer <b....@gmail.com>
> > escreveu:
> >
> > > I totally agree with your analysis of our LHF situation Paulo.
> > >
> > > The idea is to promote one ticket per day for 24 days. That approach
> > should
> > > give us enough time to clean and enhance some tickets. We only need to
> > > prepare one per day :-)
> > > I have a few candidates in mind already. If 8 persons provide 3 each we
> > > have our set of tickets. That seems reasonable, no?
> > >
> > > I also think that it is fine if the level of difficulty is different as
> > > long as we mention it clearly and that we provide some clear approach
> to
> > > solve the problem. Different people might be interested in different
> > levels
> > > of difficulties.
> > >
> > > Le mer. 24 nov. 2021 à 18:46, Paulo Motta <pa...@gmail.com> a
> > > écrit :
> > >
> > > > The idea sounds great to me in principle - the only issue I see is:
> > > >
> > > > > we promote a simple ticket everyday for a newcomer to pickup
> > > >
> > > > During GSoC this year I had difficulty selecting "simple tickets for
> > > > newcomers to pickup" for the following reasons:
> > > > - inconsistency in LHF tagging (not many of the existing tasks are
> > > markedd
> > > > as LHF/newcomer-friendly)
> > > > - inconsistency in LHF difficulty (some are easy while others have
> > > > considerable difficulty for a newcomer)
> > > > - LHF tasks lacking a clear description of what needs to be
> > accomplished
> > > >
> > > > For these reasons I don't think the LHF pool is currently in a good
> > state
> > > > to use it as a pool of tasks for this campaign, but perhaps this
> could
> > > be a
> > > > good reason to improve the quality of our LHF pool for this and other
> > > > mentoring initiatives in the future - my only fear is that we may not
> > > have
> > > > sufficient time to build this pool of tasks in time for a Christmas
> > > > campaign.
> > > >
> > > > Em qua., 24 de nov. de 2021 às 14:13, Benjamin Lerer <
> > blerer@apache.org>
> > > > escreveu:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi everybody,
> > > > >
> > > > > I would like to take the occasion of the month of December and of
> the
> > > > > holiday seasons to attract new contributors and to create more
> > > visibility
> > > > > for the project.
> > > > > I was thinking of creating some kind of Advent calendar on Twitter
> > > where
> > > > we
> > > > > promote a simple ticket everyday for a newcomer to pickup. The
> ticket
> > > > > should have the main steps described and some mentor associated
> with
> > > it.
> > > > If
> > > > > by the 1st of March the patch for the ticket has been committed the
> > > > > contributor will receive a special T-shirt as a gift.
> > > > >
> > > > > I will be happy to hear your opinion on this proposal,
> > > > >
> > > > > Benjamin
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

Re: [DISCUSS] Proposal for a December event

[Manish G <ma...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I would like to work on these tickets for newcomers.

With regards
Manish

On Fri, Dec 3, 2021, 2:17 PM Paulo Motta <pa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Here is my contribution to the advent calendar effort (I'm willing to
> mentor these tickets):
> - CASSANDRA-16436: Add startup check for large read_ahead_kb setting [1]
> - CASSANDRA-16664: Log JVM Arguments at in-JVM Test Class Initialization
> [2]
> - CASSANDRA-16584: Allow sstableloader to specify keyspace/table without
> relying on path [3]
>
> [1] - <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16436>
> [2] - <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16664>
> [3] - <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16584>
>
> Em qui., 25 de nov. de 2021 às 13:50, Benjamin Lerer <b....@gmail.com>
> escreveu:
>
> > I totally agree with your analysis of our LHF situation Paulo.
> >
> > The idea is to promote one ticket per day for 24 days. That approach
> should
> > give us enough time to clean and enhance some tickets. We only need to
> > prepare one per day :-)
> > I have a few candidates in mind already. If 8 persons provide 3 each we
> > have our set of tickets. That seems reasonable, no?
> >
> > I also think that it is fine if the level of difficulty is different as
> > long as we mention it clearly and that we provide some clear approach to
> > solve the problem. Different people might be interested in different
> levels
> > of difficulties.
> >
> > Le mer. 24 nov. 2021 à 18:46, Paulo Motta <pa...@gmail.com> a
> > écrit :
> >
> > > The idea sounds great to me in principle - the only issue I see is:
> > >
> > > > we promote a simple ticket everyday for a newcomer to pickup
> > >
> > > During GSoC this year I had difficulty selecting "simple tickets for
> > > newcomers to pickup" for the following reasons:
> > > - inconsistency in LHF tagging (not many of the existing tasks are
> > markedd
> > > as LHF/newcomer-friendly)
> > > - inconsistency in LHF difficulty (some are easy while others have
> > > considerable difficulty for a newcomer)
> > > - LHF tasks lacking a clear description of what needs to be
> accomplished
> > >
> > > For these reasons I don't think the LHF pool is currently in a good
> state
> > > to use it as a pool of tasks for this campaign, but perhaps this could
> > be a
> > > good reason to improve the quality of our LHF pool for this and other
> > > mentoring initiatives in the future - my only fear is that we may not
> > have
> > > sufficient time to build this pool of tasks in time for a Christmas
> > > campaign.
> > >
> > > Em qua., 24 de nov. de 2021 às 14:13, Benjamin Lerer <
> blerer@apache.org>
> > > escreveu:
> > >
> > > > Hi everybody,
> > > >
> > > > I would like to take the occasion of the month of December and of the
> > > > holiday seasons to attract new contributors and to create more
> > visibility
> > > > for the project.
> > > > I was thinking of creating some kind of Advent calendar on Twitter
> > where
> > > we
> > > > promote a simple ticket everyday for a newcomer to pickup. The ticket
> > > > should have the main steps described and some mentor associated with
> > it.
> > > If
> > > > by the 1st of March the patch for the ticket has been committed the
> > > > contributor will receive a special T-shirt as a gift.
> > > >
> > > > I will be happy to hear your opinion on this proposal,
> > > >
> > > > Benjamin
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

Re: [DISCUSS] Proposal for a December event

[Paulo Motta <pa...@gmail.com>]

Here is my contribution to the advent calendar effort (I'm willing to
mentor these tickets):
- CASSANDRA-16436: Add startup check for large read_ahead_kb setting [1]
- CASSANDRA-16664: Log JVM Arguments at in-JVM Test Class Initialization [2]
- CASSANDRA-16584: Allow sstableloader to specify keyspace/table without
relying on path [3]

[1] - <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16436>
[2] - <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16664>
[3] - <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16584>

Em qui., 25 de nov. de 2021 às 13:50, Benjamin Lerer <b....@gmail.com>
escreveu:

> I totally agree with your analysis of our LHF situation Paulo.
>
> The idea is to promote one ticket per day for 24 days. That approach should
> give us enough time to clean and enhance some tickets. We only need to
> prepare one per day :-)
> I have a few candidates in mind already. If 8 persons provide 3 each we
> have our set of tickets. That seems reasonable, no?
>
> I also think that it is fine if the level of difficulty is different as
> long as we mention it clearly and that we provide some clear approach to
> solve the problem. Different people might be interested in different levels
> of difficulties.
>
> Le mer. 24 nov. 2021 à 18:46, Paulo Motta <pa...@gmail.com> a
> écrit :
>
> > The idea sounds great to me in principle - the only issue I see is:
> >
> > > we promote a simple ticket everyday for a newcomer to pickup
> >
> > During GSoC this year I had difficulty selecting "simple tickets for
> > newcomers to pickup" for the following reasons:
> > - inconsistency in LHF tagging (not many of the existing tasks are
> markedd
> > as LHF/newcomer-friendly)
> > - inconsistency in LHF difficulty (some are easy while others have
> > considerable difficulty for a newcomer)
> > - LHF tasks lacking a clear description of what needs to be accomplished
> >
> > For these reasons I don't think the LHF pool is currently in a good state
> > to use it as a pool of tasks for this campaign, but perhaps this could
> be a
> > good reason to improve the quality of our LHF pool for this and other
> > mentoring initiatives in the future - my only fear is that we may not
> have
> > sufficient time to build this pool of tasks in time for a Christmas
> > campaign.
> >
> > Em qua., 24 de nov. de 2021 às 14:13, Benjamin Lerer <bl...@apache.org>
> > escreveu:
> >
> > > Hi everybody,
> > >
> > > I would like to take the occasion of the month of December and of the
> > > holiday seasons to attract new contributors and to create more
> visibility
> > > for the project.
> > > I was thinking of creating some kind of Advent calendar on Twitter
> where
> > we
> > > promote a simple ticket everyday for a newcomer to pickup. The ticket
> > > should have the main steps described and some mentor associated with
> it.
> > If
> > > by the 1st of March the patch for the ticket has been committed the
> > > contributor will receive a special T-shirt as a gift.
> > >
> > > I will be happy to hear your opinion on this proposal,
> > >
> > > Benjamin
> > >
> >
>

Re: [DISCUSS] Proposal for a December event

[Benjamin Lerer <b....@gmail.com>]

I totally agree with your analysis of our LHF situation Paulo.

The idea is to promote one ticket per day for 24 days. That approach should
give us enough time to clean and enhance some tickets. We only need to
prepare one per day :-)
I have a few candidates in mind already. If 8 persons provide 3 each we
have our set of tickets. That seems reasonable, no?

I also think that it is fine if the level of difficulty is different as
long as we mention it clearly and that we provide some clear approach to
solve the problem. Different people might be interested in different levels
of difficulties.

Le mer. 24 nov. 2021 à 18:46, Paulo Motta <pa...@gmail.com> a
écrit :

> The idea sounds great to me in principle - the only issue I see is:
>
> > we promote a simple ticket everyday for a newcomer to pickup
>
> During GSoC this year I had difficulty selecting "simple tickets for
> newcomers to pickup" for the following reasons:
> - inconsistency in LHF tagging (not many of the existing tasks are markedd
> as LHF/newcomer-friendly)
> - inconsistency in LHF difficulty (some are easy while others have
> considerable difficulty for a newcomer)
> - LHF tasks lacking a clear description of what needs to be accomplished
>
> For these reasons I don't think the LHF pool is currently in a good state
> to use it as a pool of tasks for this campaign, but perhaps this could be a
> good reason to improve the quality of our LHF pool for this and other
> mentoring initiatives in the future - my only fear is that we may not have
> sufficient time to build this pool of tasks in time for a Christmas
> campaign.
>
> Em qua., 24 de nov. de 2021 às 14:13, Benjamin Lerer <bl...@apache.org>
> escreveu:
>
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I would like to take the occasion of the month of December and of the
> > holiday seasons to attract new contributors and to create more visibility
> > for the project.
> > I was thinking of creating some kind of Advent calendar on Twitter where
> we
> > promote a simple ticket everyday for a newcomer to pickup. The ticket
> > should have the main steps described and some mentor associated with it.
> If
> > by the 1st of March the patch for the ticket has been committed the
> > contributor will receive a special T-shirt as a gift.
> >
> > I will be happy to hear your opinion on this proposal,
> >
> > Benjamin
> >
>

Re: [DISCUSS] Proposal for a December event

[Paulo Motta <pa...@gmail.com>]

The idea sounds great to me in principle - the only issue I see is:

> we promote a simple ticket everyday for a newcomer to pickup

During GSoC this year I had difficulty selecting "simple tickets for
newcomers to pickup" for the following reasons:
- inconsistency in LHF tagging (not many of the existing tasks are markedd
as LHF/newcomer-friendly)
- inconsistency in LHF difficulty (some are easy while others have
considerable difficulty for a newcomer)
- LHF tasks lacking a clear description of what needs to be accomplished

For these reasons I don't think the LHF pool is currently in a good state
to use it as a pool of tasks for this campaign, but perhaps this could be a
good reason to improve the quality of our LHF pool for this and other
mentoring initiatives in the future - my only fear is that we may not have
sufficient time to build this pool of tasks in time for a Christmas
campaign.

Em qua., 24 de nov. de 2021 às 14:13, Benjamin Lerer <bl...@apache.org>
escreveu:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I would like to take the occasion of the month of December and of the
> holiday seasons to attract new contributors and to create more visibility
> for the project.
> I was thinking of creating some kind of Advent calendar on Twitter where we
> promote a simple ticket everyday for a newcomer to pickup. The ticket
> should have the main steps described and some mentor associated with it. If
> by the 1st of March the patch for the ticket has been committed the
> contributor will receive a special T-shirt as a gift.
>
> I will be happy to hear your opinion on this proposal,
>
> Benjamin
>