Greetings Daniel, On 2016/02/07 17:01:15 Daniel Gruno wrote: > Hi ComDev folks! Ramblings incoming :) > > As an aside to the 'Guiding volunteers' thread, I was talking with Rich > (Bowen) while he was at DevConf this weekend, and we got to thinking > whether it was possible to make a tiny tool that would solve one > specific issue we often come across when someone says "I know X, Y and Z > - What can I do to help Apache?".
> […] > Enter 'Help Wanted!'. It's a very small (and very much work-in-progress) > tool that you can use to browse the tasks that all the Apache projects > would like to get done, see the difficulty of it, language (whether > spoken/written or programming) skills needed, what it's about and > who/how to contact. You can also use the HW widget to plug your own > project's requests into your web site, or you can display all the > current tasks waiting in the system across the ASF. 350+ initiatives, > 170+ TLPs, one uniform hub for requests that can help people get started > with Apache. > > […] > > It's open for all committers to go set up new tasks (universal commit > bit, so to speak, just click on 'edit tasks'), and we hope it will be a > hub for putting people on the right path - whether that be a pointer to > JIRA, ML etc - to contributing to our projects. Or it'll crash and burn > and we'll never speak of it again :)I'm afraid Help Wanted was decommissioned and is now frozen in Subversion. The closest thing to a post-mortem I could find is Rich Bowen’s 2024-10-24 email to this list: https://lists.apache.org/thread/5nxl49wbt7mpx8nmdcf1xnjznq4hkrxr
Thank you very much for this announcement and all the investment behind it. Lack of manpower and recruitment has been one of our greatest weaknesses, and it must be the worst meta-issue of most CBPP projects. I'm always sad when I see someone asking how they can help, and don't have a good resource to point to for answering that question. I am/was involved in tens of pro bono projects, in software and elsewhere, and I don't remember a project with more than static pages to answer that question.
Therefore, I am curious about the potential of a more elaborate system, and I would find it unfortunate to never speak about all the effort which went into this without at least drawing lessons from the experience. Did this ever get beyond the proof-of-concept status? Was there no wiki page tracking the site’s status?
I see that https://up-for-grabs.net lists a few Apache projects, but my understanding of Rich’s email is that this could only achieve a minority of Help Wanted’s goals. https://forge-allura.apache.org/p/allura/tickets/4218/ requests Allura to implement something similar to helpwanted.apache.org, but it's not clear if that would accomplish most of its goals.
> Contributions, feedback, quality control etc are MOST WELCOME, and we're > only getting started with the proof-of-concept right now (as found in > svn). Hopefully we'll have something stable and polished by the end of > February? :) > > With regards, > Daniel. > > […] > -- 🅭🄍: https://www.philippecloutier.com/Common+infrastructure+licensing#list Philippe Cloutier
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