On 2/1/07, Ben Rockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
While that would be handy, we already have a good program in place, its just buried. I refer to "Bite Sized Bugs".
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The idea here is that if someone sits down on a Saturday afternoon and wants a challenge they pull up the list, pull one that looks tasty and start working on a solution. Its got to be super easy for people to get started this way.
Actually, I think the oss-bite-sized stuff isn't helping. I really don't think that a complete newcomer to the community is going to be excited by a bunch of random bugs that ought to have been fixed years ago. And we haven't got hundreds of contributors who started out that way. Any thought that this process (maybe just in its current form) is a good one is just going to stop us developing a good system. I think we need to advertise what projects or communities need help at any point in time, and for each community or project to identify key issues where extra hands would make a difference. At the moment it's very difficult even for those of us who've been involved with the project for a while to find this out, let alone someone coming in afresh. People coming in are presumably doing so for a reason, and may have particular skills and interests. How do we make it easy for them to find the right place to contribute? We need a bit of structure for newcomers to fit themselves into. They'll branch out and won't need the framework once they've got comfortable. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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