+1! As a newcomer, after reading the out-of-date short "Help Wanted" page and other materials, I still have no idea where I can help the project. A detail task is helpful for me to get started.
2011/12/1 Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org>: > I had someone contact me off list asking how they could help with the > project. The person pointed this this page, but noted it appeared out > of date: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Help+Wanted > > Indeed it is :-( > > How could we improve on this? > > Some options (and I'm sure there are others): > > 1. Use the wiki, but keep this more up to date. This is easy to > maintain for us, but doesn't scale that well after we get past a few > dozen items. > > 2. Use Bugzilla. Have some way of marking an issue by level of > difficulty, or ones that are especially good for new volunteers. Have > a query that can pull up these issues. > > 3. Use an external service, like OpenHatch: http://openhatch.org/ > ("An open source community aiming to help newcomers find their way > into free software projects." > > This could be used in conjunction with #2, to promote volunteer > opportunities via their aptly named "volunteer opportunity finder". > You indicate what BZ keywords indicate "bitesized" issues or > "documentation" issues and these are advertised for volunteers to see. > > We didn't have BZ set up when I added the "help wanted" page to the > wiki back in June. So maybe the best approach is some combination of > 2 & 3? > > Any thoughts? > > I'm willing to help. But I'd need some BZ admin assistance. > > -Rob >
