Re: [tor-talk] My experience contributing to any Tor Project projects

[Kevin Simper <kevin.simper@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Georg

Thank you so much for your reply, yeah the Tor Project covers a lot and I
think that is both a blessing and a curse :-D

> I could write up my contributions over the years, from battling with
relays, UX research, training non-technical users, software porting and
patching... and it would be unique, just like yours.

I think it would be awesome to read your experience, shorter than mine is
probably better, about what is important to know to contribute to the parts
that you like in the Tor Project. Would you write such a post?

> The previous discussions on the new www site were utterly inappropriate.

Yeah the same about the previous, it can become easy to criticize and I
really didn't want to do it with this post, but more highlight how it feels
coming from some other projects that are way more centralized. The focus
should be how easy is it to make a change.

-Kevin


On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 11:45 AM George <george@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Kevin Simper:
> > Hi Tor users and contributors
> >
> > I wrote down my thoughts about how to feels like getting started
> > contributing to the tor project.
> >
> > https://www.kevinsimper.dk/posts/how-to-contribute-to-the-tor-project
>
> Wow.
>
> >
> > Last year I did successfully submit a couple of changes to
> > support.torproject.org that is awesome to see deployed! But it was
> mostly
> > because of the awesome people on that team because everything else felt
> > like it worked against me making any contributions just because how
> pieces
> > of information are spread out.
> >
> > I will love to hear what you think! What triggered this what I was trying
> > to report a bug and again meet all the different systems, but I did
> manage
> > to create it https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/30042
> >
> > What my point is that I am not just hating and have tried my best to use
> > the systems before I talk about them, so my experience is authentic as
> > possible :)
>
> I think this is a great overview. I would love to see this linked somehow
> to a broader forum.
>
> Tor is a wide open software project with so many diverse and intricate
> parts.
>
> I could write up my contributions over the years, from battling with
> relays, UX research, training non-technical users, software porting and
> patching... and it would be unique, just like yours.
>
> The bigger point is this: Tor isn't some simple one-sided project.  There
> are a lot of moving parts.
>
> About the web site discussion, specifically:
>
> To be bluntly honest, I didn't participate in the new www site roll-out to
> any extent, and only just looked at it this morning. If I had any
> criticisms or comments, I would be doing it humbly, since I wasn't part of
> the process.
>
> Are there open source projects where that is not a valid dictum?
>
> Everyone should remember that when the snowballs of condemnation are
> accumulating.
>
> And remember, a lot of us volunteer a lot of free time to this project,
> and we appreciate how much others do also. The respect that TPO
> contributors get is well-earned.
>
> Speaking as someone on the TPO Community Council, contributing to a
> software project means contributions, not jumping onto an avalanche of
> criticisms. The previous discussions on the new www site were utterly
> inappropriate.
>
> g
>
>
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