+1 for all three ideas. 2nd idea will be helpful a lot to new contributors. In my experience i had lot of troubles in choosing an issue to contribute.
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Pushpalanka Jayawardhana < pushpalankaj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Devs, > > All the three ideas are so encouraging us as new contributors. > > Having someone willing to provide guidelines will be a great help and will > increase the effectiveness and confidence to resolve an issue. > > I started to contribute recently and there were few pages that were really > helpful. I wrote a blog post on Documentation-patch > submission<http://pushpalankajaya.blogspot.com/2011/09/documentation-patch-submission-for.html>with > what I learnt trying that. A 'How to contribute' guide targeting new > contributors will be much helpful, that will avoid following wrong paths get > frustrated. > > Thank you for pointing out these ideas. > Hoping to experience these improvements soon. > > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Krishantha Manjula Rathnayaka < > krishantha...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Deves, >> >> I’m really happy about "How to contribute " guidance idea and the idea of >> Committers’ guidance towards the new comers. >> >> Hope that we will able to benefit with these soon. >> >> >> >> Keen to hear from you >> >> >> >> Thank You! >> >> >> >> Kind Regards, >> >> \Krishantha. >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Amila Suriarachchi < >> amilasuriarach...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Sagara Gunathunga < >>> sagara.gunathu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi devs , >>>> >>>> As we can see number of new people start contributing to Axis2 project >>>> we need to simplify and improve the contribution process. Since we >>>> can't expect same set of developers to stay on the project forever we >>>> should encourage new people to to contribute in order to keep healthy >>>> project. Personally I fell still there are numbers of steps we can >>>> introduce to this project to encourage new contributors. >>>> >>>> 1.) AFAIK at the moment we (committers) can assign JIRA issue to some >>>> other committers only there is no way to assign JIRA issues to >>>> contributors. As I remember in Woden and number of other Apache >>>> projects provide this facility. IMO we need to remove this restriction >>>> so that committers can assign issues to contributors too. I believe in >>>> this way new contributors feel some strong ownership and kinda >>>> relationship with the project. >>>> >>> >>> +1. >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 2.) Currently when ever new contributor ping to the dev list we ask to >>>> go through JIRA page and pick a issue and start contribution. Some >>>> people end up being active contributors but some of them select JIRA >>>> issues those are not obvious to fix or there is no developer willing >>>> to review those patches or no one here to provide proper guidance, in >>>> all those cases final result is people get frustrated and stop >>>> contribution. What I would like to suggest here is once the >>>> committers feel a particular issue is easy to fix or if he know the >>>> procedure (may be no time to fix it ) or if he willing to provide >>>> guidelines / reviews to a contributor mention it in the JIRA issue >>>> itself. we can use some kind of a label like >>>> Contributor/Easy/QuickStart or something similar to that as an >>>> indication so that new people can easily find those JIRA issues. >>>> >>> >>> +1. Good idea. Anyway the success of this depends on how much time people >>> have to update those jiras. >>> >>>> >>>> 3.) We should create "How to contribute " page for the reference of >>>> new contributors. For the moment we have number of nicely written >>>> guides about developers ( release process , site building , mailing >>>> etc ) that covers most part of details required to new contributors >>>> too but IMO it much useful to have a separate page for new >>>> contributors. >>>> >>> >>> +1. >>> >>> thanks, >>> Amila. >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Any other suggestions ? or objections ? >>>> >>>> >>>> If we can agree on above ( or more ? ) I'm happy to start this >>>> process. >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks ! >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Sagara Gunathunga >>>> >>>> Blog - http://ssagara.blogspot.com >>>> Web - http://people.apache.org/~sagara/ >>>> LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/ssagara >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@axis.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@axis.apache.org >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Amila Suriarachchi >>> WSO2 Inc. >>> blog: http://amilachinthaka.blogspot.com/ >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> * >> >> >> >> >> >> Krishantha Rathnayake >> SOFTWARE ENGINEER >> Service & Asset | Research & Development >> >> 501 Galle Road, Colombo 00600 , SRI LANKA >> Tel +94 78 389 58 07. 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