Sorry I've been slow to return to this thread. It seems that we all agree projects, rather than just individual bugs, are a great way for people to get more involved. While it's certainly great to have a detailed description of a project laid out ahead of time, I'm worried that it requires too much effort to be sustainable.
I think we should experiment with the idea of using the [mentor project] whiteboard tag on meta bugs, where we can gather groups of bugs that fall under a similar area. I already labeled a few that I think would be good candidates: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=prod%3Aandroid%20sw%3A%22mentor%20project%22&list_id=12587192 I haven't looked through the bug dependencies closely, so they could probably use some more gardening, but I like the idea of gathering groups of bugs in areas where contributors can make a positive impact on the project. There are always going to be more bugs than we can possibly fix, but let's make it easier to at least find ones we care about :) Margaret On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Nicholas Alexander <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Margaret Leibovic <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi team, >> >> I've been thinking about how we can help new contributors work their way >> up to more substantial coding contributions, and I'd like to see if we can >> experiment with grouping our mentor bugs into small mentor projects. This >> doesn't need to be a large project broken into chunks, like "Implement XYZ >> API", but rather a set of bugs that focus on one area of the code base, or >> one goal (e.g. reduce the number of drawable resources in the tree). >> Ideally these would be bugs that wouldn't require too much guidance or >> back-and-forth to get started on. >> > > I happened to be in the about:logins code today and the entire v2 meta bug > is an excellent mentor project. I'm not sure there are many [good first > bugs] but it's basically all [good next bugs]. It looks like ally is > already mentoring some of those tickets, which is awesome. I don't have a > lot of time right now, but I'll add myself as a mentor to a few of those as > well. Between ally, liuche, and myself, we might knock this whole thing > out as a mentor project. > > Nick > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=1183225> >
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