I had no idea that Github issue tracking was that awesome. DAMN. I love it here :)
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Garrett Serack <garre...@microsoft.com>wrote: > Wow. Github’s issue tracking is freakin’ awesome. > > > > Everyone: WATCH THE VIDEO. (Especially *Elizabeth*, who seems to uncover > bugs by just breathing.) > > > G > > > > *From:* Tom Hanrahan > *Sent:* Thursday, June 02, 2011 8:54 AM > *To:* Garrett Serack; coapp-developers@lists.launchpad.net > *Subject:* RE: Shallow-forking contest! > > > > Garrett, > > > > Since you raised the subject of “bugs filed,” this would be a good time to > talk about how we want to manage bug reporting. It turns out Github’s bug > tracking system is incredibly easy to use. Each repository has an issue > tracker. So, for example, coapp/trace and coapp-packages/gzip each has its > own issue tracker that you can access from a tab on the repository’s main > page. Filing, updating and closing issues is easy and there’s a short video > that explains just how simple it is. You can watch the video at: > > > > https://github.com/blog/411-github-issue-tracker > > > > -- Tom > > > > *From:* coapp-developers-bounces+hanrahat=microsoft.com@ > lists.launchpad.net [mailto:coapp-developers-bounces+hanrahat= > microsoft....@lists.launchpad.net] *On Behalf Of *Garrett Serack > *Sent:* Thursday, June 02, 2011 8:15 AM > *To:* coapp-developers@lists.launchpad.net > *Subject:* [Coapp-developers] Shallow-forking contest! > > > > Hey folks, > > > > (not an official announcement yet!) > > > > We're reaching a stage in the CoApp project where we can really use the > help of Windows developers to assist us in shallow forking open source > projects as a precursor to producing actual CoApp packages for products and > libraries. > > > > I have an idea to encourage developers to assist us--it involves running a > contest: > > > > To encourage OSS community developers shallow-fork and create Windows > builds of OSS projects, according to the procedure ( > http://fearthecowboy.com/2011/05/09/shallow-forking-a-project/) . > > > > Each project worth between one and five points, depending on complexity and > importance (decided by, um... me!) and we go until we have *100 forked > projects* in github at which point we go into* sudden-death overtime*, where > people have 7 days to get their forks done in order to count. > > > > So we'd end up with a little more than 100 packages, and someone who worked > really hard on something at close to the end wouldn't get screwed over. > Also, we wouldn't have to give anything out until we reached our goal :D > > > > Then we draw for prizes, each point gets you one entry in the draw. > > > > I’m thinking if we had a sizable number of prizes--Like an > XBox+Kinect+games bundle at the top, and work our way down, we may be able > to jumpstart the whole thing. I’ve already got commitment from the > Outercurve Foundation and Microsoft to furnish some funds for prizes. > > > > Plus perhaps we could get t-shirts printed up for all the people who forked > something... (perhaps with some classy phrase regarding "Forking projects > for Windows" ... or "I forked for Windows") > > > > It also occurred to me this morning that we could award points in the draw > for bugs filed (reproducible, accepted bugs) as well. > > > > My questions for you: > > > > - I can easily acquire prizes of products that Microsoft produces > (Xboxes, Kinect, games, mice, keyboards, software) -- does anyone have any > opinions as to what I should get? I’m going to have to order the prizes > before the contest completes in order to get it into this budget cycle. > > - Should I focus on as many large prizes and only a few small > things, or should I get a lot of smaller/medium things, and a couple big > ones? > > - Is this something that interests you all? It’d start pretty quick > (Probably as early as next week)—and will go until we get to 100 projects > (+sudden death overtime!) > > > > > > > > [image: Description: Description: Description: > fearthecowboy]<http://fearthecowboy.com/> > > *Garrett* *Serack* | Microsoft Open Source Software Developer | *Microsoft > Corporation > Office*:(425)706-7939 *email*/* > messenger*: garre...@microsoft.com > *blog*: http://fearthecowboy.com * > twitter*: @fearthecowboy <http://twitter.com/fearthecowboy> > > *I don't make the software you use; I make the software you use better on > Windows.*** > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers > Post to : coapp-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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