This sounds like a very appealing option for someone like myself who is looking to contribute but lacks experience and know-how. I'll be following this thread and am encouraged by the willingness of developers to bring on new members.
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Gaetan <[email protected]> wrote: > I strongly support this kind of human to human interaction. When arriving > in a new project, there is a lot things to know that is not properly > described in a proper document, set of general rules, etc. Things like how > to handle this error situation, or weird error message from the compiler. I > don't want to annoy the mailing list with obvious error message, trivial > situations. > > I think we can learn a lot from well organised documentation, but talking > to someone who already know is extremely valuable. > > ----- > Gaetan > > > > 2013/11/26 David Rajchenbach-Teller <[email protected]> > >> It would be great if these bugs could be indexed by Bugsahoy: >> http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/ >> This is the search system we use in Mozilla to lead contributors towards >> mentored tasks, so that would only make sense. >> >> Cheers, >> David >> >> On 11/26/13 9:58 AM, Corey Richardson wrote: >> > Hey fellow Rusties, >> > >> > We have a fair number of new contributors, and my devious mind wonders >> > how we can get more. My first thought was a new tag, E-mentored, where >> > someone can volunteer to mentor someone through an E-easy issue. It's >> > a very lightweight, non-formal process, and can hopefully give some >> > more guidance to people who come into #rust asking for a good issue to >> > get started with. >> > >> > This is intended for brand-new contributors, whereas I feel E-easy is >> > a teeny bit misused. >> > >> > I also propose that, when tagging an issue as E-easy, a comment >> > describing the nature of the fix and where (file + function ideal) one >> > would look to start the fix. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Rust-dev mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev >> > >> >> >> -- >> David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD >> Performance Team, Mozilla >> _______________________________________________ >> Rust-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > >
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