I should have added. Currently if you go to the helpwanted app and ask for a task involving Groovy, no tasks are returned. I think we can fix that problem! :-)
Cheers, Paul. On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 11:36 PM, Paul King <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I was asked again recently to identify some potential tasks for various > keen members of the community who want to help. We have done this to some > degree in the past using various labels on jira tickets but I think perhaps > we could look at potential improvements to how we identify and advertise > such tasks. > > There were two things I was going to try. Firstly, some better consistency > in our labels: we currently use these labels (at least - maybe more): > beginner, easyfix, contrib, newbie, and help-requested. I was going to try > to shrink that list. Secondly, I was thinking we could perhaps use Apache's > helpwanted app/page: https://helpwanted.apache.org/. > I don't know how popular or widely known it is but it seems worth a try. > > Thoughts or suggested tickets are welcome. > > My initial goal will just be to get a small backlog of such tasks > available using a consistent label scheme and fed into the helpwanted app. > I am happy to get the ball rolling and advertise what naming scheme I end > up selecting (and adding that to the docs) but it will work best if a few > folks chime in and get their favourite tasks added to the list(s). We don't > need an extensive list of tasks, just ones that are easy for contributors > to identify and for us to identify too so that we can ensure they remain up > to date and contain the needed info for contributors to get started > relatively easily. > > For anyone interested, the search I used: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-8044?jql= > project%20%3D%20GROOVY%20AND%20status%20in%20(Open%2C%20% > 22In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened)%20AND%20labels% > 20in%20(beginner%2C%20easyfix%2C%20contrib%2C%20newbie%2C% > 20help-requested) > > Cheers, Paul. > >
