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title: “Community Manager Meeting June 5, 2019” tags: news community keywords: news community permalink: 2019-06-05-cm-minutes.html summary: “Minutes from the Community Manager meeting on June 5th” hide_sidebar: true hide_navtoggle: true toc: true

First meeting of the community managers for the 2019 term

Today the first meeting of the Gerrit Community Managers took place in an online meeting. This post contains a short summary of the topics that were covered.

Attendees

Edwin Kempin, Marco Miller, Matthias Sohn

Place/Date/Duration

Online meeting, June 5, 17:00-18:00 CET

Minutes

Community manager role

like a Scrum master for the Gerrit community
support the community and the ESC
help to remove impediments, try to identify them pro-actively
time we can spend: 10-25%

Working mode

Regular online meeting, target weekly
Agenda and notes are kept private since they may contain sensitive information
Minutes will be published

Backlog and communication

Backlog in new component “Community” in issue tracker
Establish a dedicated google group for discussions with community managers, sensitive topics need private group, explore what is supported by google groups, see issue 40010768

Introduce community managers

added list of community managers to the members page of the Gerrit website
will post introduction on repo-discuss once dedicated google group is available

Measure community satisfaction

consider surveys, discussion to be continued, see issue 40010771
community retrospective similar to a scrum retrospective planned for user summit in Gothenburg on 29-30th August, see issue 40010774
consider community retrospective after releases
- gather experience with the retrospective planned for user summit Gothenburg
- do retrospective face to face at hackathon
- publish results as Gerrit change and let everyone comment and contribute further ideas in the review

Possibilities to better align Gerrit community with JGit and Bazel communities

Bazel conference in Mountain View and Gerrit user summit in Sunnyvale both planned for Nov
invite a Bazel talk to the Gerrit user summit in Sunnyvale, see issue 40010773
invite for JGit presentations at Gerrit user summits, see issue 40010772
EclipseCon Europe Oct 21-24 would be another opportunity to meet JGit committers and contributors

Code of conduct

consider introducing a code of conduct for the Gerrit project, discussion to be done, see issue 40010775

Testimonials

CMs will drive gathering of testimonials