Sounds like a good plan to me. It's one of those bite-sized tasks that will grow with time, but will make the overall process move along. Feel free to tag me offlist for help, too.
--- ispyhumanfly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > chromatic wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 December 2007 09:20:22 Paul Hodges wrote: > > > > > >> But on this general note, is there any current organization or > location > >> where small problems are being parcelled out? I'd love to help, > but my > >> time is as limited as everyone's.... If I could get small bites of > work > >> to do, maybe I could contribute something useful. > >> > >> Anyone requesting one black-box module or function at a time? Or > am I > >> pipe dreaming? > >> > > > > I used to publish a Pugs and a Parrot task of the week in the > Perl.com > > newsletter, but there didn't seem to be much uptake and so it > slowly > > dissolved. > > > > It might be nice to have a small list of bite-sized tasks for the > interested > > linked off of dev.perl.org/perl6 and the various project pages. I > know > > there's a Perl 6 wiki around here somewhere, so in theory all we > need is > > someone to prune the page regularly and poke various projects > asking for a > > couple of small tasks for the uninitiated. > > > > -- c > > > > > I realize now I sent a post directly to chromatic regarding this > issue, > but I've developed an idea using an existing technology that could > really help for organizing something like this. www.hiveminder.com > is a > task/to-do list organizer application written using Jifty. It's > created > and mainted by the Best Practical team. I would be willing to > maintain > a group on hiveminder and people interested in getting involved can > create accounts and have tasks assigned to them. These tasks could > easily be tracked and monitored in an organized fashion with rss > feeds > available for viewing by say; perl.org? Just an idea... > > -- > _ispy++ >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: use Perl; > > =============================================================== Hodges' Rule of Thumb: Don't expect reasonable behavior from anything with a thumb. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs