Hi Martin Can you let me know your JIRA ID and I'll put you in the contributors group.
Many thanks Jon On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 11:24 PM Jonathan Gallimore < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Martin! > > Thanks for posting, and welcome! I think it would be great to have your > support on the JIRA side of things - many thanks for offering. I think our > JIRA titles and descriptions in many cases probably only make sense to the > developer who filed the ticket and probably doesn't mean too much to folks > consuming the software. Any help you could give would be fantastic. > > I don't know what is involved permissions wise, but @David - perhaps you > could help? We also have some folks I can assign issues to, and some I > cannot. I don't have karma to make group changes. Happy to help if I can > but I might need some more permissions myself :). > > Cheers > > Jon > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 10:41 PM Wiesner, Martin < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> my name is Martin. @dblevins and I were discussing how individuals could >> contribute to #TomEE. He convinced me to join the mailing list. >> In the past, I contributed some user feedback, opened bug reports and >> proposed improvements in exchange with @rmannibucau and @struberg. >> >> Some further background information: >> I work in the field of Medical Informatics, doing research and teaching >> for several years now at Heilbronn University (Germany), CS faculty. As >> Richard (@zowalla) already mentioned in his welcome message, we are using >> TomEE in software labs in our bachelor / master programmes and in regular >> projects at our faculty, for instance, managing hardware loans to students >> and staff members. >> >> How I could contribute (atm): >> @dblevins and I discussed that I can support in keeping TomEE's JIRA >> instance clean and comprehensible, e.g. by (a) identifying and closing >> duplicates, (b) clarifying unclear descriptions or affected branches, (c) >> communicating with reporters on missing details and so on and so forth. >> Hopefully, other dev guys could benefit. Why? They might better identify >> relevant topics or enhance existing bug reports... In addition, I could >> screen discussions on the mailing list for "hidden gems" and open (or edit) >> JIRA issues to give bugs and/or tasks a unique number within the issue >> tracker. >> >> Why is this so important? >> From my perspective, as a researcher and as software architect, clarity >> often improves communication in, and efficiency of a project. I've >> experienced this in many projects I’ve been involved so far. >> >> What do I suggest? >> Maybe you can grant me elevated permissions within the project’s issue >> tracker. If approved, I could then manage the aforementioned aspects within >> TomEE’s JIRA instance. I’m familiar with this tooling as we have JIRA >> running in our faculty. This instance is actually hosted by Richard and me. >> >> If I can help otherwise: feel free to ask. In case I say ’no’: please >> don’t feel rejected. I’ll try to give an explanation in such a case. >> >> Best, >> mawiesne >> -- >> https://twitter.com/mawiesne >> >
