Greetings Rich,
Thank you very much again for your efforts on this project, your
acknowledgement of its abandonment, and sharing reasons behind that.
That being said, I for one cannot help but find it unfortunate that what
must have been considerable effort ends up this way, and I would not say
I fully understand the issues from your description.
Is there a wiki page or something which sheds some light on what did not
go as planned? Statistics on requests and offers? Was lack of manpower
to maintain Help Wanted a factor?
The Wayback machine allows getting a base idea about what Help Wanted!
was, but it obviously does not work entirely:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240324122658/https://helpwanted.apache.org/
Do we have a description of how it worked?
On 2024/10/24 20:06:13 Rich Bowen wrote:
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> > On Oct 24, 2024, at 3:52 PM, Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > First time hear of the helpwanted.a.o.
> >
> > We do not need to develop anything for projects that are on GitHub
>
> FWIW, the original vision of HelpWanted was pretty specifically not
about code. It was about identifying non-code needs of projects, since
there were already then, and are now, much better ways to discover “good
first issue” type things to work on. That was never the goal of this tool.
>
> Despite (I thought) communicating this pretty clearly, all we got was
project posting links to tickets.
FWIW, Daniel Gruno’s 2016 announcement gives 2 example use cases, and 1
of these sounds specifically about coding.
Still, tickets are not necessarily about code. What kind of tasks
untrackable with tickets was Help Wanted supposed to be about?
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Philippe Cloutier
https://www.philippecloutier.com
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