On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have been raising these issues from time to time in our weekly meetings.
> I've thought about that, and decided that that meeting is long enough
> already without me trying to cram more into it. I think a large part of the
> lukewarm response I get trying to recruit people to do these things is due
> to the forum I'm raising these issues in. So I've got an alternative
> solution: product microtasks™ [1].
>
> Product microtasks are problems that have been reported by a user that I
> have assessed, prioritised, and defined a clear-cut engineering solution
> for. If you're stuck on your current project and want something else to
> work on to cleanse your programming palate, you can do one of these. The
> intention for these is that they're little discrete chunks of work that are
> easy for you to pick up and not have to worry about defining the solution,
> just implementing it.
>

I think this is a good idea! I also think you should go ahead and continue
raising these tasks in our weekly meeting. Perhaps we could make microtasks
be one of our regular sections in the Google doc. I think your effort to
articulate the scope and selection criteria for these tasks will make
recruiting developer time easier.
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