Welcome back to TomEE, Martin! On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 4:41 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 > -- Richard Monson-Haefel https://twitter.com/rmonson https://www.linkedin.com/in/monsonhaefel/
