Hi. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > As you have probably noticed, I'm engaged in a variety of initiatives > to grow the community, bring in more volunteers, etc. One additional > piece that I think would be useful is to add a new field to Bugzilla > to indicate the difficulty level of the bug. Of course, this will > often not be known. But in some cases, we do know, and where we do > know we can indicate this. > > What this allows us to do is then have search filters that return only > open easy bugs. These are ideal for new developer volunteers on the > project who are looking for items that match their lesser familiarity > with the code. It also allows a developer to step up to more > challenging bugs over time. > > A similar approach, which they called "easy hacks", was successfully > used by LibreOffice. > > If there are no objections, I'll add a new field to Bugzilla called > "cf_difficulty_level", and which a drop down UI with the following > choices: > > UNKNOWN (default) > TRIVIAL > EASY > MODERATE > HARD > WIZARD > > (I'm certainly open to variations on the names) > > I'd then rely on other developers to help "seed" the database with > some TRIVIAL and EASY bugs, so new volunteers will have something to > work with as they familiarize themselves with the project. > > I'll wait 72 hours, etc. > > Regards, > > -Rob
+1 -- Albino
