On 11/06/2013 07:24 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > So that's why suddenly I started receiving these email requests :D
No, you are getting suddenly these emails from a group of students at http://foss.amrita.ac.in because a mentor told them to do so. We have explained the right process to them (asking in the bug report itself instead of sending private emails). This is what Andre and me found out after asking to some of these potential volunteers. They are getting the bugs assigned, as requested. Let's see how many have the skills and determination to resolve the bugs. After reading all this thread, I would be cautious changing the current setup. New users can't assign bugs to them, but nothing is stopping them to comment their intentions on the report itself, and actually fix the bug. If a potential contributor doesn't understand this (yet), there is also a chance that s/he won't be ready (yet) to fix the bug either, because that will probably require understanding other, more complex steps. This might be one of those barriers that happen to be useful to understand better the complexity of a first task. I'm not sure we would get a significant benefit by removing it, even if we wouldn't get any of the vandalism that caused the introduction of the barrier in the first place. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
