On 2014-11-12 02:14, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Christian Kastner wrote: >> Going even further, what would you see as possible solutions for >> augmenting bug reports tagged 'entry-point' with the information I >> mention in first post, ie: >> >> On 2014-11-09 20:20, Christian Kastner wrote: >> > * A specific objective (bug fix, enhancement, debugging, cleanup, >> > documentation, translation, ...). This should probably be tied to a >> > Debian bug number. >> > >> > * A description of the required skills (packaging, debugging, C, ...) >> > >> > * A difficulty rating (1:low to 5:very high) >> > >> > * An estimation for the amount of work to be done (hours, days) >> > >> > * An urgency (influenced by severity, popcon, ...) >> > >> > * A list of one or more mentors will to help. >> >> Personally, I think that the "required skills" and the "difficulty >> rating" would be very valuable additions. >> >> It may be possible to infer the other attributes from the other metadata >> eg: urgency ~ severity. > > I'd suggest using the BTS's summary command, which enables you to > nominate a message whose first paragraph will summarize the bug. > > This is free form, but that's probably good enough (at least for > starters).
I'd argue it's good enough for the task itself, but searching for areas to contribute to could still be improved significantly. For example, given the following list of motivations a new contributor might have "I want to help fix simple bugs in C programs." "I want to help fix difficult bugs in Java programs." "I want to help with translations." "I want to help multiarchify packages." a search by the "entry-point" tag alone would indeed reduce the list of issues to hundreds (thousands?) of entries, but that's still a lot. On the other hand, if these were possible, I think the value should be evident (FTR, all flags to how-can-i-help made up): $ how-can-I-help --difficulty low --skills C $ how-can-I-help --difficulty hard --skills Java $ how-can-I-help --type translation $ how-can-I-help --difficulty low --skills packaging And, of course, a web interface for entry-point also wouldn't hurt, I guess. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/0b0a7bc39a3fd47693eb1c524f69b...@kvr.at