[kata-dev] Volunteer for regular Kata status blog?

Cameron Seader cseader at suse.com
Fri Feb 23 14:09:36 UTC 2018


On 02/23/2018 03:02 AM, Hunt, James O wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
>
> 2018-02-23 2:53 GMT+00:00 Cameron Seader <cseader at suse.com 
> <mailto:cseader at suse.com>>:
>
>     Greetings,
>
>     I would love to contribute to this.
>
> Thanks for offering to get involved!
>
>     I'm not actively contributeing code to the kata development, but
>     can happily do some blogging or documentation etc.. Do you have an
>     example of what might need to be posted and where it would get
>     aggregated from (github)?
>
> In terms of what to post about, some thoughts...
>
> # Sources of information
>
> As a starting point, how about using the following for sources:
>
> - Any interesting Slack/irc/mailing list discussions
>
> - Details of a selection of the weeks PRs:
>
> https://github.com/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+org%3Akata-containers+created%3A2018-02-17..2018-02-24
>
> Clearly, we don't just want a list of PRs, so a sentence or two 
> atleast on any significant / interesting PRs landing would be good.
> You could potentially ask contributors to summarise what they did for 
> a particular feature / fix if it is particularly big / complex / 
> unclear [1].
>
> - Topic of the week
>
> You could pick one part of the system and explain what it is, how it 
> works, etc. A few examples:
>
>   - What is the kata-agent / kata-proxy / kata-shim?
>   - What is osbuilder?
>   - How does docker use the runtime?
>   - How is the overall system tested (static analysis, unit-tests, CI, 
> metrics, etc)?
>   - How is documentation written+reviewed?
>   - How does the project use pullapprove?
>   - What are all those repositories for? (answer in the form of a very 
> basic "table of contents": 
> https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/master/README.md 
> :)
>
> - How to contribute to the project
>
> As stated in https://github.com/kata-containers/community#community, 
> the project welcomes all forms of contribution.
> For new contributors, the best thing to do is either add a comment to 
> an issue saying you'd like to work on it, or just asking on any of the 
> channels for ideas of easy places to start.
> In fact, we should look at making that process easier by encouraging 
> anyone to tag small/easy issues with the "bitesize" label I've just 
> added to all the repos.
> It's also worth pointing out that contributing can be as simple as 
> raising an issue! ;)
>
> - New features / plans for the future / upcoming events showcasing 
> Kata Containers
>
> This could involve looking at newly opened feature issues, attending 
> the Architecture Committee and Working Committee meetings (or perusing 
> the meeting minutes) and asking on the channels.
>
> # Use a wiki for draft summaries?
>
> We could use one of the repos wikis [2] for draft posts. That way, 
> lots of folk could potentially work on the weekly summary over the 
> course of the week, before it gets posted. That would also give us a 
> good "bus factor" [3] ;)
>
> # Other info
>
> - It might be useful to add links at the end of each post with details 
> of how to contribute to the project:
>
> https://github.com/kata-containers/community/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> James.
>
Perfect! I'll get started on Monday going through these resources.
-Cameron

> ---
> [1] - This is actually an excellent way for the overall project to 
> ensure we're documenting our work clearly - if any of those PRs are 
> ambiguous / unclear, please do post comments to them asking for 
> clarification (even if the PRs are closed).
> [2] - https://github.com/kata-containers/community/wiki might be a 
> good place to do that.
> [3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Cameron
>
>
>     On 02/22/2018 06:33 PM, Anne Bertucio wrote:
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>     In today’s Working Committee meeting, the idea of a weekly or
>>     bi-weekly status blog came up. This would be a regularly
>>     occurring, short post to help those who are watching Kata
>>     approach a 1.0 release but aren’t involved in the details stay up
>>     to date.
>>
>>     You don’t have to be a seasoned writer; I’m happy to edit and
>>     polish your posts, we just need a volunteer to take charge on the
>>     drafts.
>>
>>     The Kata homepage will have a blog page up in the next two weeks
>>     or less, which is where these posts would live.
>>
>>     Any takers?
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>     Anne Bertucio
>>     anne at openstack.org <mailto:anne at openstack.org> | irc: annabelleB
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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