On 02/08/2016 11:53 AM, Francesco Chicchiriccò wrote: > Just to show my appreciation: +1, looks very cool! > > Any idea of when we can start filling it up with real things? > Thanks.
I've already started deleting the test entries, so you could start using it already if you like. I'll remove the warnings from the front page then :) With regards, Daniel. > > Regards. > > On 07/02/2016 17:01, Daniel Gruno wrote: >> Hi ComDev folks! Ramblings incoming :) >> >> As an aside to the 'Guiding volunteers' thread, I was talking with Rich >> (Bowen) while he was at DevConf this weekend, and we got to thinking >> whether it was possible to make a tiny tool that would solve one >> specific issue we often come across when someone says "I know X, Y and Z >> - What can I do to help Apache?". >> >> Traditionally, we've said "subscribe to our mailing list (which one?!)" >> or "Go look at JIRA/BugZilla", which in itself is fine, but off-putting >> to many people as we don't actively use neither MLs or bug trackers to >> advertise what we want done, and what tech/person skills would be >> helpful where (we're terrible!). Furthermore, it is our >> opinion/assessment that bug trackers are not that great from a "skills >> -> tasks" perspective. While great for bugs and larger tasks for an >> existing audience, they don't provide the right overview or search >> features that one could want, and keeping some sort of uniform setup for >> these tasks across the ASF is going to be a LOT of work. >> >> ...If only we had somewhere someone could just go and say "I'm great at >> marketing and documentation, what tasks are there that I can do?" and >> then get 10 different requests across 6 projects, some that you could >> start on right away and some that require more intimate knowledge with >> the project. >> >> ...Or the experienced C/Python programmer that wants to know which tasks >> at Apache they could hack on as a good introduction to that project, >> while at the same time helping the project accomplish something new. >> >> ...Oh, and wouldn't it be nifty if we could have a widget we could place >> on our web site that lists what we as a project or foundation are >> looking for right now in terms of work to be done, so when people visit >> our page, they can see that "hey, we're looking for a web dev guru - is >> that you?" ? >> >> Enter 'Help Wanted!'. It's a very small (and very much work-in-progress) >> tool that you can use to browse the tasks that all the Apache projects >> would like to get done, see the difficulty of it, language (whether >> spoken/written or programming) skills needed, what it's about and >> who/how to contact. You can also use the HW widget to plug your own >> project's requests into your web site, or you can display all the >> current tasks waiting in the system across the ASF. 350+ initiatives, >> 170+ TLPs, one uniform hub for requests that can help people get started >> with Apache. >> >> The code is "live" at: https://helpwanted.apache.org/ >> A test widget is here: https://helpwanted.apache.org/wtest.html >> (the test widget shows what it could look like on the httpd site) >> >> It's open for all committers to go set up new tasks (universal commit >> bit, so to speak, just click on 'edit tasks'), and we hope it will be a >> hub for putting people on the right path - whether that be a pointer to >> JIRA, ML etc - to contributing to our projects. Or it'll crash and burn >> and we'll never speak of it again :) >> >> Contributions, feedback, quality control etc are MOST WELCOME, and we're >> only getting started with the proof-of-concept right now (as found in >> svn). Hopefully we'll have something stable and polished by the end of >> February? :) >> >> With regards, >> Daniel. >> >> >> PS: Yes, I know the admin area is a stylistic nightmare. That'll be >> fixed...eventually! And the task guide needs a LOT of work. Saying >> "contact the dev list" isn't enough, but I'll need a word smith for >> that :) >> > >