I propose that we should be working with projects to encourage them to "tag" issues in JIRA that are suitable for various types of introductory activities. So, for example, we might have:
- mentor (indicating that this is a fairly major task for which a mentor is available) - entry (indicating that this is the kind of thing someone with reasonable development skills can tackle whilst learning about the project) - non-tech (indicating that this is ideal for someone without fully developed IT skills) I'm assuming that we can add a suitable field to JIRA to accept these "tags" and that we could then create filters to find them. We can then point people looking for suitable projects towards these issues. Initially I suggest we start with the projects we are committers/mentors on. Once we have traction we can take it to the wider ASF. Thoughts? Volunteers? Ross -- Ross Gardler OSS Watch - supporting open source in education and research http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk
