Christian, couldn't agree more! The best way for us to help is to add a few pointers and review patches and provide feedback. We could probably use this process to improve the documentation as well. Contributions welcome!
Hadrian On Aug 2, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Christian Müller wrote: > Hello! > > I love to see as we asking our users to be more involved with our project. > > I would like to add the label "Contributor" or "Beginner" (or something > similar) to issues which are easy to be resolve (by interested > users/customers). We should not fix these issues so soon (unless it's an > urgent fix) to get the users/customers the chance to pick them up, adding a > comment that other knows they are working on this issue and providing a > patch for it. I could create a view in JIRA which lists all open issues with > this label and add a link from the contributing page [1] to this view. I > think then it is much more easier for our users/customers to "being more in > touch" with our project and evolve from a user to a contributor to ... > > I know what this is for a great feeling to see its own (first) patch > committed, to add his name to the team page [2] later, ... > > What do you think? > > [1] http://camel.apache.org/contributing.html > [2] http://camel.apache.org/team.html > > Best, > Christian