[xwiki-devs] [Brainstorming/Proposal] Improving our Community

Hi guys, Several of us had an IRL discussion while at the XWiki SAS seminar. We brainstormed a bit about the xwiki.org community and about issues that exist and how to find actions to improve them. * Denis said: Lacking long term direction in the project * Denis said: Would be nice to have XWiki SAS long term vision in the open source project since XWiki SAS has the most committers in the project => action: create page on xwiki.org with big items discussed/decided on the list but not done yet (e.g. Flavors, etc). Assignee: Vincent => action: send mail on list about the vision of the xwiki project. Assignee: Denis => action: send a survey with a list of flavors identified (and possibility for the responders to add more) to see how xwiki users are using XWiki. Assignee: Silvia * Denis said: Difficult to know who's working on what, who's an expert in what domain in the community => action: rewrite hall of fame page to be more friendly with a short presentation of committers. Create the skeleton and ask everyone to fill his part. Assignee: Vincent => idea: define a set of tags corresponding to xwiki features/modules and tag user pages with them. Create a User Directory app on xwiki.org displaying those tags to see who's an expert in what. Assignee: ? => idea: improve profile pages to see what users have contributed too. Assignee: ? * Denis, Caleb said: sometimes "too hard" for newcomers. Feeling of not being welcomed and having to work too hard to push something in. => idea: create an XWiki event. Assignee: ? (Vincent is interested to organize something in France/Paris) * Denis said: Hard to find what you're looking for in the documentation, some obsolete parts. * ThomasD said: Missing some guides for newcomers who wish to start contributing on the platform => we didn't get the time to discuss this * Caleb said: Lack of code ownership. If there was code ownership then the owner would feel responsible for his part => we didn't get the time to discuss this * Caleb said: Sometimes difficult to discuss on the mailing list because others will answer about the way it should be done and the proposer has no time to do that => we didn't get the time to discuss this Do you agree about this? Do you have other points not mentioned about issues in the xwiki community? Do you have ideas on how to improve the points mentioned above? Are you willing to help on some actions? Thanks! -Vincent