The Contributor Growth working group is interested in assisting CNCF projects with sustainably growing their contributor base.
- Provide best practices and resources for managing and interacting with contributors to CNCF projects.
- Provide guidance on a sustainable contributor lifecycle for CNCF Projects to:
- Develop a pipeline that brings in new contributors.
- Define a contribution ladder with activities that promote contributors to higher levels of responsibility.
- Support their maintainers with advice and resources that improve sustainability and plan for transitions from the project.
- Templates for common documents like a contributing guide, reviewing guide, maintainers guide, contribution ladder, etc.
- Case studies of successful projects of various kinds/sizes and how they manage contributions.
- Collect and share talks related to the working group's mission, for example building open source communities, or reflections on a particular community's best practices.
- Document ways to contribute to a project, especially roles outside of the obvious feature enhancement/code contributions.
- Discuss non-code areas that support contributor growth, such as project management, design, user experience and documentation and how CNCF projects can prioritize work that may not be the maintainers primary skillset.
- Provide materials that a CNCF project can use to address the TOC due diligence guidelines related to project's contributors and community.
The following are examples of things out-of-scope:
- Project governance.
- Project automation, such as prow.
- Day to day support for improving the contribution experience for CNCF projects. Instead, CNCF projects should take on this support themselves (for example, Kubernetes has SIG Contributor Experience).
- Carolyn Van Slyck - @carolynvs (Lead)
- Karen Chu - @karenhchu
- Paris Pittman - @parispittman
- Jennifer Davis - @iennae
- Catherine Paganini - @cathpag
Don't see your name? That was an oversight! Open a PR and add yourself. ❤️
We meet once a month. Go to the CNCF calendar and enter "Contributor Growth WG" in the search box to see when we meet next.
Discussion happens on the mailing list or on #tag-contributor-strategy on Slack.
Our documentation is shared in the cncf/contribute repository.