On 31/05/17 04:07, Coty Sutherland wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been thinking about things that we could do for Tomcat to help > bring in new contributors and to be more appealing to new developers. > Right now we have http://tomcat.apache.org/getinvolved.html which has > a few bullet points and links to documentation, which is a bit verbose, > about how to contribute to an Apache project. We also have the wiki > (https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FrontPage), which mentions nothing > about contributing. Bugzilla is a bit daunting for newcomers (thought > we did create the "Beginners" tag to help identify some BZs for new > folks to work on) too. I've been looking around for some ideas on how to > make it easier for new people to contribute after having some > conversations with friends about contributing to Tomcat and found some > interesting examples other projects are using to help bring new people > in, such as https://wiki.gnome.org/Newcomers (which is my favorite) > and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join. Obviously Tomcat isn't as > large of a project as those, but it does have multiple places for > people to contribute (Documentation, Patches, FAQ, wiki, etc) which > could use different skill sets. This site > http://whatcanidoforfedora.org/en would be really cool to implement, > but at the ASF level I think (Tomcat isn't complex enough to warrant > that, is it?).
https://helpwanted.apache.org/ > Anyway, the point of this email is really just to say that we should > take some cues from other projects and try and develop a solid entry > ramp to help entice new developers :) What does everyone else think? Got for it. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
