I agree that we have to lower the bar. What Seb and I were discussing is a commitment from a small group of people to help accomplish lowering the bar. Once it's lowered, then hopefully the rate and impact of casual contributions will greatly increase.
--Paul Andrew Kuchling wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:57:17PM +0000, seb bacon wrote: > >>What we need, as Paul suggested about zope-web, is a set of community >>members who are able and willing to contribute 10 hours per week. I >>think there are very few such people. I would love to, but I simply >> > > I'd think the number of such people is zero, except for people who use > Zope in their work and can justify time spent developing on Zope > itself as being work-related. It can't be assumed that people have > much time to spend on a free software project; instead you have to > lower the bar, and make it easier for hit-and-run contributors. If it > takes days or worse, weeks and months, to get a contribution accepted, > people just won't bother. > > Re: bug tracking. If Bugzilla is too much of a bear to deal with, > there are simpler alternatives available, such as Roundup, Jitterbug, > the SF bug tracker, and our unreleased SPLAT!. > > --amk > > _______________________________________________ > Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) > _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
