Discuss results of 2020 Contributor Survey

[mark-i-m]

Meeting proposal info

• Title: Discuss results of 2020 Contributor Survey
• Type: non-technical (mostly)

Summary

Discuss the results of the 2020 Contributor Survey.

There were 409(!) responses. 164 from people who never had a PR merged; 169 from people who have contributed less than once per month; 76 from those who contributed at least once per month. The results have been analyzed by breaking them down into these 3 categories of contributors.

This document has the meat: https://hackmd.io/b-FKKh9DSnah-lj1NVKaAw

About this issue

This issue corresponds to a meeting proposal for the compiler team steering meeting. It corresponds to a possible topic of discussion. You can read more about the steering meeting procedure here.

Comment policy

These issues are meant to be used as an "announcements channel" regarding the proposal, and not as a place to discuss the technical details. Feel free to subscribe to updates. We'll post comments when reviewing the proposal in meetings or making a scheduling decision. In the meantime, if you have questions or ideas, ping the proposers on Zulip (or elsewhere).

[pnkfelix]

In today's planning meeting, we decided to schedule this meeting for August 14th.

Calendar event

[pnkfelix]

After learning that @mark-i-m may be unavailable on the scheduled August 14th, we decided to drop this meeting from the schedule; we'll try to get it into the next steering meeting cycle.

[nikomatsakis]

In today's planning meeting, we decided to schedule this for September 4th. Calendar event

[jyn514]

This was discussed in https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/238009-t-compiler.2Fmeetings/topic/planning.20meeting.202020.2E09.2E04. Should this issue be closed?

[nikomatsakis]

@jyn514 yeah, it should be closed, but usually we close when we create some minutes. I think I said I would do it but I have not :(

[jyn514]

I can write up some minutes.

[jyn514]

https://hackmd.io/@jynelson/BkqsUyLdP

[pnkfelix]

It was awesome that @jyn514 wrote up minutes from the meeting. Unfortunately, they apparently now are at a dead link. :)

Anyway, as already mentioned, there is the public zulip archive, which will serve as the official record for the meeting, here: https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/238009-t-compiler.2Fmeetings/topic/planning.20meeting.202020.2E09.2E04/near/209035849

[jyn514]

fixed link: https://hackmd.io/daPDR2Q7Ryey0Q2gqgSM2w