Oversight Board/2018-2020-candidates/Rahul Bothra

Hi everyone, I am Rahul Bothra (pro-panda). I am a Python Developer and code reviewer for Sugar Labs.

I was a GSoC' 18 student with Sugar Labs, and I worked on porting Sugar to Python 3. I continue contributing in terms of code, code reviews and as a mentor in GCI' 18.

I am excited our goals and our potential. But I am concerned that the way we are working is wrong. Currently in the SLOB meetings,

• A lot of the members are inactive. They don't attend the SLOB meetings or reply to motions, crippling our progress.
• There is a lot of talk, but there is not an equivalent amount of work done. We fail to properly materialise discussions
• We don't have a concrete plan of our goals. We try to cover a lot of breath in our efforts, and end up working on things which are not related to our goals (eg: Sugar Social)
• We drag work for a lot of time, (eg: ASLO v3) a direct result of inactive mentoring and checks during GSoC

I also feel there is a lack of concern about the number of developers working on Sugar and the activities. We are failing in attracting new consistent developers despite being a popular GSoC and GCI organisation.

What I will undertake once elected:

• Attend every SLOB meeting regularly
• Revamping how we conduct GCI and GSoC to attract more contributions as well as improve the quality of mentoring; making sure we prioritise tasks which are more important to us, adding more checks before adding developers, grooming of every task / project before it is added / selected.
• Make a clear roadmap of our goals for the next 2 years in each domain of code, outreach, design and content. Start towards implementation of those goals according to priority.

I would like support from the community for my candidature for the post as a SLOB member.