> There is a separate role for contributors in JIRA and any project > administrator can add people to that role. The current list of > administrators for the AXIS2 project is as follows: Axis2 is created with the above mentioned permission for the contributors, we simply need to find the users want to contribute and then add them to the contributor group.
Deepal > > Andreas Veithen, Gavin, Ruwan Linton, Sagara Gunathunga > > So, you should be able to do that yourself. > >> Thanks ! >> >> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Pulasthi Supun Wickramasinghe >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> +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 >>> <[email protected]> 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 >>>> <[email protected]> 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 >>>>> 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 >>>>> <[email protected]> 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 >>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Sagara Gunathunga >>>>>>> <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] >>>>>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> 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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