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

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