Proposing Willa For dev/5

@burke all this makes sense overall but there is not much good at ticking all the boxes if there is not enough community engagement for all those skills to serve usefully.

I know plenty of Hibernate experts, but that doesn’t make them /dev/5, if you know what I mean.

While it is 100% clear to me that @willa’s history makes him a /dev/5 and beyond (if there was such thing), I am more interested in what this upgrade brings to the community moving forward.

For instance there is not much point in listing all those projects being supported out there if those projects do not feed back to the community. So when someone says “I did xyz for whatever implementation in this or that region/country” they hopefully should add “and we committed xyz back here or there in the OpenMRS repositories”, that would make their point very strong.


The paragraph below is not about @willa anymore btw, but I would like to vent it out anyway as a thematic follow-up to what I just wrote.

Feeding back can be as lightweight as filling bugs in Jira, but feeding back nothing actionable is problematic. Then we are left only with publicity. It is nice to know that OpenMRS is being used here or there. That part, if you want my opinion, is a well known fact: the community of use of OpenMRS is large and we should be proud collectively, however… the community of development is thin. Too thin in relation to the community of use, and we need to keep raising the alarm on this. Unfortunately it will be no consolation to know that the problem is ten folds with Bahmni.

Cc @jennifer @pradiptakundu

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