R Contribution Working Group: Ideas Incubator 2022
Between our July and September 2022 meetings we will asynchronously generate and discuss ideas for the R Contribution Working Group (RCWG) to work on in its third year.
Since September 2022 the RCWG:
- Explored R's Bugzilla (report) and developed a prototype Shiny app to highlight bugs needing attention.
- Further developed the R Contribution Site, which is now hosted at https://contributor.r-project.org/.
- Set up the @R_Contributors Twitter account.
- Presented the R Development Guide at LatinR 2021 (Video)
- Ran Collaboration Campfires as part of the Digital Infrastructure Incubator, supported by a grant from Code for Science and Society.
- Went on the R podcast to talk about RCWG initiatives.
- Organized a Bug BBQ as a satellite event to useR! 2022.
- Reviewed the status of translations and Translation Teams. Set up a Weblate server for testing as a translation contribution platform.
- Mentored two Google Summer of Code projects: Track R Translations Status (proposal, dashboard) and Converting past R Journal articles to HTML.
- Began a Google Season of Docs project to update the R Development Guide.
For more details see the GitHub issues and meeting minutes.
From: Now!
To: Friday September 16, 2022, 14:00-15:00 UTC (find your local time)
As in the previous years, you are invited to propose an idea for the RCWG to work on in the next 12 months.
- Check the open issues.
- If you think one of the open issues should be carried forward, please comment there.
- If you have a different idea, please open a new issue.
- If you are a member of the R-devel GitHub organization, label the issue you have commented on/created with the label idea for 2022/2023.
All new issues or issues labelled idea for 2022/2023 will be discussed at the September meeting. Please attend the meeting if you can!
From: Now!
Everyone is encouraged to discuss the ideas proposed in GitHub issues.
Use comments to:
- Give suggestions for refinements/implementation details.
- Offer to contribute to implementing the idea; if possible, specify what role(s) you could play. (If you are part of the R-Devel GitHub organization, you may assign yourself to the issue).
Use emoji to:
- Show your support for the idea.
- Agree with other people's comments.
Date: Friday September 16, 2021, 14:00-15:00 UTC (find your local time)
Proposors will put the ideas forward at the September meeting. The meeting will then decide to
- Adopt idea as a current task for the RCWG and start work/determine next steps.
- Postpone decision till next meeting allowing for further discussion on GitHub/more volunteers to be found/relevant information to be gathered.
- Reject idea for the short-term.
Meeting details will be posted on the Events page and the R-Devel Slack Group.