The request-sponsor program has been in place for eight months, and things are going well. It's great to have 89 contributions offered by 18 community members with 39 putbacks into the ON consolidation so far. Additionally, there are more than 20 fixes in progress and a few have generated ARC cases.
We'd like to keep the momentum going by increasing the number and diversity of contributions, while at the same time improving the process for participation. Improvements to b.o.o and the implementation of source code management are givens; in the meantime, how can we improve what we have right now? To get the discussion going: * For those who are contributing code, what can we do to make it easier for you to keep contributing? Specific experiences are helpful. * For those who are thinking about contributing code, what can we do to help you get started? Would more oss-bite-size bugs help? * For those of you who are fixing bugs locally or writing code for ports or distributions, what would enable you to offer some of the more generic bits to the project for integration where appropriate? Input appreciated. Jim/Bonnie/Karyn
