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Review Status of Content for Github Contributor guideGuide

• Current status is listed at the top of this etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/magma-contributor-guide-review
  • Lucas volunteered to start working on a few sections
  • We agreed to add security related content into the guide as well to ensure the processes are clear for all contributors
    • Lucas will prioritize this section within the work items he signed up for
• Contributor Guide: https://github.com/magma/magma/wiki/Contributor-Guide#table-of-contents

•  Items
  • Contributor attribution
    • Important for visibility and community growth
  • How contributors enter a project?
    • Funnel process: user → contributor → maintainer
    • → Improve the onboarding process
      • How?
        • Need to encourage people to contribute back, ie: raise issues and fix bugs
      • What metrics to measure?
        • Metrics for community growth
          • Tools
            • LF Insights
              • https://insights.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/magma/dashboard;quicktime=time_filter_6M
            • CHAOSS project community metrics (https://chaoss.community/metrics/)
            • Cauldron: https://cauldron.io/project/5585?from_date=2021-01-21&to_date=2022-01-21&tab=performance-overview
          • Purpose
            • Identify bottlenecks, ie: Issue response time
              • It is discouraging when new contributors enter a process and they don't get a response in a reasonable time
            • Identify places in processes that need improvement or further documentation
    • Community growth ideas
      • Shubham mentions office hours that were discussed a little while back, but haven't happened yet
      • Community call
        • Open to everybody where new contributors can also engage in real time
        • Could be a call to
          • Give updates
          • Serve as a coordinating call among the community at large
          • To open up and get the community together
      • Contributor attribution project
      • Events
        • Onboarding sessions, etc

to be continued next time

• No updates this week, postponed until the 1.7 release is out