List Reorderer

[Jess Mitchell]

+1 woo hoo Justin and everyone -- great stuff.

J

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On Mar 13, 2009, at 10:24 AM, Michelle D'Souza wrote:

> I really liked the idea of 'My First Bug'. I think we should take a  
> good look at what's open in JIRA and tag some well defined and  
> constrained bugs as "My First Bug". Then we could have a JIRA filter  
> that is shown on the Current Needs page. To make this strategy work  
> we'd have to ensure that someone is monitoring these bugs and when  
> patches are submitted we act quickly on them. I would think a nice  
> short list like top ten would be inviting.
>
> Michelle
>
> On 13-Mar-09, at 9:57 AM, Justin wrote:
>
>> 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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> University of Toronto
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