Super exciting to have the bandwidth to start putting my plans into motion. I decided that I want to do a daily status update in engine-dev, and let folks track my current areas of focus using a GitHub project board.
Very cool! I actually just put together a roadmap for myself to get to the point where I can contribute to the core rust gamedev community. Any input/tips from your perspective would be welcome
@tytr@bevy In terms of impact, winit, gilrs and wgpu are the most in need of contributions IMO. They're foundational and unsexy. Try your best to work with existing projects where you can: they're often surprisingly flexible as long as you can reach out as a friendly human.
But find something you love and can do sustainably: if you love audio or graphics or ECS, do that!
@bevy The first #bevy challenge I want to focus on is improving the contributor experience. Bevy has a huge PR backlog (557 PRs), which is largely driven by difficulty getting enough (and timely enough) reviews.
IMO there are three primary root causes here:
Some domains (hi assets, reflection and audio) simply don't have enough experts.
The PR backlog is very painful to navigate and its really tricky to find PRs to review.
The existing labels that we have simply aren't suitable for finding work to do, or work to review. By adding better difficulty and status filters, we can actually allow the search functionality to function. If that goes well, something like https://github.com/marketplace/actions/issue-label-notifier might be a good addition.
@bevy The second relatively major change is explicit rules for how and why PRs can be closed.
In the absence of a process by which we org members and maintainers are empowered to actually close PRs, they just sit neglected and rot indefinitely. This is bad! It's messy, disempowering and frankly disrespectful.
Saying no is hard, but that doesn't mean we should shy away from it and kill ideas through silence.
@bevy The third and final major change for today is a formalization of the working groups that have started to pop up around complex pieces of work. A group of aligned, motivated people is a highly effective way to work, and the ability to actually gather such a group is a strong signal that the work is worth prioritizing.
By having a formal but low process list of these, we can make it way easier to track work and jump in as a new contributor.
@bevy I don't expect this to be the end of the project management work and improvements, but I'm feeling really pleased at the way the #bevy community has come together to openly discuss these challenges and potential solutions.
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