A page to post the findings of the 2016 community survey and to list the actions proposed to address concerns raised in findings.
Findings
The findings can be found at: http://onosproject.org/2016/05/17/diagnosis-onos-community-survey-2016/
Recommended Actions
We need to increase transparency
We gathered recommendations on this topic through a TST meeting, blog post and mailing list discussion.
- Move off of Google Hangouts as a videoconference system since it is inaccessible to community in China and to people in some organizations
- Post a Roadmap page on the wiki that contains an easy to find list of upcoming features and how to get involved with each
- Post notes of key meetings in addition to video or audio recordings of those meeting since people don't tend to watch an hour long recording of a meeting (for instance, the recording of the March 30 TST meeting has 56 views as of May 18 and that equals 6% of the 914 subscribers of the onos-dev mailing list that is the relevant audience for this content). Also provide a window of time for people who missed the meeting to read the notes and respond to them before making a decision about a topic (so a discussion at a TST meeting could propose a decision and then after feedback on the list the decision could be formalized).
- Put more ideas for how to increase transparency here
We need to have better documentation and review technical procedures
- Implement a module owner system for docs on the wiki to make sure everything there is owned by someone
- Put more ideas for how to improve documentation and review technical procedures here
We need to avoid ON.Lab staff becoming a bottleneck
- Improve and expand the module ownership system which has already helped remove ON.Lab staff from code review bottlenecks
- Put more ideas for how to avoid having ON.Lab become a bottleneck here
We need to reduce barriers to contribution
- Review the times of all community meetings to make sure communities around the world can attend. For instance, the TST meeting at 3 pacific is too late for Europe and too early for Asia – perhaps the meeting could alternate between an earlier time (maybe 10 pacific) and a later time (perhaps 4 or 5 pacific) so that community members in Europe and Asia have a chance to attend
- Put more ideas for how to reduce barriers to contribution here