2019-11-21 Outreachy Meeting notes

Project: Migrate Apache Juneau PetStore Sample Application To Spring Boot Standalone Application.

https://www.outreachy.org/december-2019-to-march-2020-internship-round/communities/apache/#migrate-apache-juneau-petstore-sample-application-

One intern approved. 

Interns will be announced on the alums page on Nov. 26, 2019 at 4pm UTC. https://www.outreachy.org/alums/

Internship period: Dec. 3, 2019, to March 3, 2020 

Onboarding process? 

• Introduce to the community. we or mentors? Mentors are in charge. Send an email as a reminder. 
• training materials, guides, ...? Mentor and coordinators.  
• intern ICLA?  after contributing and get invited to be a committer. 

Reviewed new version of friction log template. 

We opened this version for feedback for 72h internally before opening it to the community on the mailing list. 

Share with google forms.

Share the updated friction log template and ask for feedback. Create a task for sharing. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qbhrwfy0jN-Ibq6VV2bJOsDL3H1VAay4PcfNs6CwJdM/edit#

Meetup to introduce to the community

Lack of recorded contributions in some projects: We opened a discussion and came up with some theories, see mailing list discussion: Tooling training for ASF projects.

• possible reasons why:
  • The skill level required in the project is too high and/or
  • the wording of the project is a bit intimidating due to the technical language or unclear goals
  • High system requirements 
• possible solutions:
  • setup cheat sheet + more guided or explained tasks. Include this sheet in the project submission to guide applicants in their initial contributions. we've seen sometimes there is no time to address all queries/questions from applicants, therefore we could include this sheet to help them guide themselves.  
  • we need a more easy-to-start development environment. regarding applicants with less experience. In this case, it is hard to find a solution other than committing enough mentor time, which is hard to find. 
• Examples: how to make the first code line to contribute.

Task assigned to Matt Sicker: Begin a confluence page for gathering documentation on how to get started contributing to Apache projects in general (e.g., Jira, Maven, Git, etc.)