| [platform-dev] Opportunity for funded work - Onboarding new contributors and growing the base of committers in the Eclipse IDE related projects |
Hi,
The Eclipse IDE Working Group would like to fund a consultant to help grow the base of contributors and committers on the Eclipse IDE related projects. You will work in support of the Eclipse IDE Working Group community of developers, contributing projects, and the wider Eclipse IDE community with a focus on onboarding newcomers and helping other contributors as well as fixing and reviewing issues that affect the wider Eclipse IDE ecosystem.
This role will work within the Eclipse IDE related open source projects and collaborate alongside the Eclipse IDE Working Group Steering Committee, Planning Council and Eclipse Foundation Staff, and others supporting individuals to grow the user and technical community around the Eclipse IDE.
This prioritized development effort is to ultimately grow the number of Committers, in cooperation with the program manager:
Welcoming new potential or existing contributors, triaging and responding to incoming Pull Requests on a daily basis,
Helping them get process items resolved (like ECA, version bumps, matching documentation, API, etc.),
Responding to emails on dev lists or messages on slack or matrix rooms that require attention or direction to a more suitable location,
Introducing new contributors to the community to increase acceptance from existing committer groups,
Writing / improving contributor documentation, ensuring the resources are easy to locate,
Preemptively going through issues and community forums, helping people out where they can, and pointing them to materials that can get them set up properly and smooth the developer experience of their workflow,
Providing resources to bootstrap new contributors, recording "hands-on" videos showing potential new arrivals how to get started as a new contributor in the community, speaking as a presenter in webinars, posting “how-to” blogs, hosting virtual drop-in office hours,
Analyzing the contribution pathways, engagement styles, and other elements of the contributor experience in Eclipse IDE-related projects and optimizing them to:
help both active full-time contributors and new or part-time contributors have a positive experience and as few barriers to quality contribution as possible,
notice when issues are recurring and create resources that clarify or solve these issues
add multiple pathways for contributor onboarding - for example, targeted week-long fast paced contribution clinics…
Desired Skills and Experience
Committer on one or more Eclipse IDE projects;
Experience with the Eclipse IDE as an end-user;
Experience with the Eclipse Development Process;
Experience with the Eclipse IDE Simultaneous Release;
Experience in community development or related field;
Knowledge of GitHub, Gitlab, or any other code and issue management system.
If you are interested, please reach out to me as a next step and provide some information as a first step:
Identification of who will perform the work,
A short overview of your experience and participation in those projects,
A proposed price on an ongoing base,
A rough estimate how much time (hours per week) you would be able to commit to this initiative
See issue #19 for more information.
Please let me know by Thursday, April 11th if you are interested in pursuing this opportunity. Also, I would be happy to answer any questions you might have, either by direct email, matrix chat or zoom call.
Best Regards,
Thomas Froment
Eclipse IDE Program Manager | Eclipse Foundation Europe GmbH
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References - Eclipse IDE Working Group with their Dev Effort Initiative