+1 for all three This will indeed be a huge help to new contributors to get a quick start.
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Shameera Rathnayaka <shameerai...@gmail.com>wrote: > +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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