Hey, On 23/03/14 01:32, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Reply in-line :- > > <cut> > >> Yes, that is a good point. And even if they do, they will only see some >> cryptic 'types of opportunities' that might not be meaningful to them. >> Which brings us to the next question... > > Hi Tomasz, > That is exactly how I felt. While I'm not using it or going to do any > commits but I do use it and want to use it whenever and wherever we > promote debian within students and general populace at large. > > Having said the above, it can be observed that most of the bugs which > are there at the moment fall under the following categories :- > > <cut>
I know it's slightly off topic, but I think you nicely described those. I don't want to rewrite any existing manual, but maybe some additions to descriptions on the how-can-i-help wiki page [1] could also help newcomers? Not anything big, just a one or two additional sentences pointing to some important facts (like orphaned packages having some packaging that could be reused). > e. Packages removed from testing but no reason given (that I feel is > another bug, perhaps already reported) There are quite a few reasons why a package could be removed. At the moment, how-can-i-help cannot tell why so it provides you with qa link (so you can check yourself). Why do you think it is a bug? > And lastly bugs about sponsorship (RFS) which probably only an > existing DD is able to do anything about it. That is true, but DDs also use how-can-i-help :) Of course, I do agree that many types of opportunities might not be suitable to a fresh newcomer. So while I don't think we should hide them by default, adding an option to show only selected types (using command parameter; no configuration) is a nice idea :) >> While explaining the syntax and usage of the new option (both in man and >> in '--help') is straightforward, I wonder if we should specifically >> mention that the gift bugs are meant for newcomers. Something like: >> 'Hint: If you want to start contributing to Debian you should probably >> look at 'gift' bugs first. You can do it by running how-can-i-help >> (...)'. Should we make such a line appear in '--help' output? Won't >> pointing at 'gift' bugs reduce changes of spotting other, more fitting >> opportunities? What do you think? >> > > First of all, I'm not saying we do not show them. We could have all > kinds of options, something like :- By no means was I planning to hide them. You should be able to show any combination of types. I was just thinking about adding a 'hint' text about trying 'gift' bugs first. This could make someone to look only for those and miss other type of opportunity in a package he or she uses. Probably not a real issue. Regards, T. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help
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