Hey GNOME lovers, https://openhatch.org/search/?q=&toughness=bitesize shows "bite-size" bugs across free software. It's a search engine for new contributors looking for something to do. I was inspired by GNOME Love when I heard about it, and I've since discovered many projects do something similar. We index a bunch of bug trackers, including GNOME Bugzilla's gnome-love bugs.
Of note, you can also search for not just coding bugs, but requests for documentation. We rely on the tags people label bugs with in bug trackers, and right now we have only found the Python (language) project marking bugs that way. Do GNOME projects use a tag like gnome-love that means a bug is an issue with or request for documentation? I wonder if you guys would be interested in poking around the site and telling me what you think. I think this list and OpenHatch have a common goal of getting people involved in free and open source software. (-: One more thing I want to draw to your attention is our "I want to help" button that lives on project pages. Check out (for example) the Python project page on OpenHatch at https://openhatch.org/+projects/Python . There's a big green "I want to help" button up top, and when you mouse-over it, it tells you that "People of all levels are welcome!" I'm interested to see what happens if people simply register their interest; then someone involved in the project can suggest something for that person to work on, based on the skills and interests of that person. This could be a big boon for people who don't normally see their skills as relevant to contributing to open source, or people who are a bit too shy to just click on a bug, hunt for the source to a program, and start patching. For example, people who can contribute design or app testing help usually don't have any gnome-love bugs to start working on, but they could make a project maintainer's life easier. So I want to make a request -- do any GNOME projects want to put "I want to help" buttons on their own websites? There's easy copy-paste HTML source on every project page. I think that would be great. Thanks for reading so far! Let me know what you think. -- Asheesh. P.S. If you like what we're up to, consider staying in touch outside the GNOME-Love list. Blog: https://openhatch.org/blog/ Twitter or Identi.ca: @openhatchery IRC: I'm paulproteus approximately everywhere, such as #openhatch on freenode and #gnome-love on GIMPNet. (And email is good too!) -- Q: What is purple and concord the world? A: Alexander the Grape. _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
