List Reorderer

[Justin]

A while back when the Mozilla guys dropped by to talk, they mentioned  
that they have a process to get people started with committing called  
something like "My First Bug".

I have been wanting to begin something like this for a while, but have  
not yet.

I was thinking it would work something like this.

1) Begin submitting patches for easy to fix bugs.
(These could be one of the many "Trivial" issues we have jira)

2) Begin submitting bug fixes for harder issues

I would imagine that current committers would help these people out  
and would eventually nominate them for commit access, when deemed  
appropriate.

This is as far as I had been thinking, but now you raise the point of  
these "Carrots". This process could then lead them to developing the  
"Carrots".

Any thoughts?

- Justin
On 13-Mar-09, at 9:23 AM, Anastasia Cheetham wrote:

>
> On 12-Mar-09, at 2:57 PM, Daphne Ogle wrote:
>
>> I .. came up with some additional design enhancements that could be  
>> made to the list reorderer component:  http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/List+Reorderer+Wireframes 
>> .
>>
>> I believe those enhancements would be considered "Carrot  
>> enhancements" for post March since the core team is already booked  
>> for the 1.0 release.  Has there been any thought as to how we  
>> identify these yummy carrots?  Perhaps we just need a dashboard- 
>> style confluence page that lists and briefly describes these  
>> carrots? Actually, how about adding them to the "Current needs"  
>> page, http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Current+Needs?
>
> A first step is to file JIRA tasks for the specific work to be done,  
> but you raise the excellent question of how do we foster more active  
> contributions from the wider community?
>
> It think the Current Needs wiki page is a probably a good start.  
> Right now, it looks a bit sparse, and has an "Under Construction"  
> warning that would probably deter people. I think it's time we put a  
> bit of effort into this page, make it more inviting. We could also  
> link directly to its parent "Get Involved" page from the website.
>
> What do other people think?
>
> -- 
> Anastasia Cheetham                   a.cheetham at utoronto.ca
> Software Designer, Fluid Project    http://fluidproject.org
> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto
>
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