| larowlan |
Going to forego this for the fortnight because its been so long since the last meeting, will start collating again next meeting |
| lendude |
I’ll see if I can scrape some stuff from the API |
| lendude |
Meanwhile….not sure if everyone saw this yet, this is a graph from the Initiative leaders talk I did at DrupalCon showing the current open bugs by year |
| lendude |
Conclusion: we have about 1000 bugs per year ‘left over’, one of our goals would be to make this less.So from a graph stand point, we want to make this less wide, and lower the bars |
| dww |
“Join the #bugsmash initiative: we lower the bars!” :wink: |
| Michael (g-brodiei) |
Haha, I know this is a naive question to ask about time management, but I'd love to hear some sharing exp from everyone.Life can be hard, everyone needs to make a dime to support themselves, especially during this pandemic, so is the company to support their employees.So I guess my actual question should be: how can we persuade the company to see the long term effect of sparing dev time to employees in contributing back to the community? How does a company make it into its culture and belief? (edited) |
| quietone |
Identify companies that have made the culture shift and talk to them |
| Michael (g-brodiei) |
Great idea for a starting point! Thanks! |
| Matroskeen |
You can start from requesting hours required to fix something applicable to your project - it usually works :slightly_smiling_face: |
| Michael (g-brodiei) |
Ohhhh, nice~~ Project Bug (community bug) Smashed by Company!! I can probably find some core bug related to our project, and open a :bug: card on our Trello board XD. |
| lendude |
There are some good video’s and blogs out there about “why”.From the DriesNote a while ago for examplehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diP95t6dto0&feature=emb_imp_woyt |
| Paulo Henrique Cota Starling |
Hi @Michael (g-brodiei),I work for CI&T and I spend a lot of my time (during work) resolving issues from the Drupal Community. I think a company will let his employee help an open-source community if it gives to the company 'something back'. And help an open-source is VERY GOOD for the company.I can list some advantages to the company:Technical knowledge Put the company as a reference because you are sharing something good to the worldYou can use the contributions as an argument to your client to prove that you are good in DrupalThere are many others points and as CI&T has the open-source spirit I can say that it is very attractive for the company and for the open-source community. |
| Michael (g-brodiei) |
Hi @lendude,Thanks for sharing this lovely video, I totally agree on what Mike Lamb mentioned, being able to give back and enhance the community has made the team feel proud with what they developed when we fixed a bug or made an enhancement on a contrib module (still got lots to learn, but me too :blob_smile_happy-eyes:). I've been trying to make more people within the company experience the same, they just need to overcome the language barrier haha.Hi @Paulo Henrique Cota Starling,These are great notes given!Technical knowledge, YES I learned more about how Drupal works while writing test for core bugs, I can share that exp. with my colleagues for sure.Company as a reference, maybe that acts as a good marketing strategy? XDYes I believe we had encountered a few clients whom had asked if the company hold any Drupal certification (similar) or Drupal project development exp. (heard the story before ha)One further questions tho Paulo, if I may ask? What also intrigues me is how does a project's scope (say timeline or time-frame for developing) or the workload is shared among a team to allow you being able to work nearly full-time on resolving community issues? Or maybe it just depends on the company's current human resource loading capability? |
| Paulo Henrique Cota Starling |
I think it depends more on human resource loading capability. Of course not every project and company has enough time or budget to let an employ to contribute to an open-source community.But when we see that it brings good visibility to company, we can start thinking "What can I do to this custom module so it can be usable for everyone?" "How long time it will take more to develop it?" "Can it be useful to the community?".It is not easy to measure. We need to think about the pros and cons. |
| Michael (g-brodiei) |
Yes, think about the long terms and keeping it DRY, will keep that in mind! |
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