On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Rainer Bielefeld
rainerbielefeld_ooo...@bielefeldundbuss.de wrote:
Hi all,
I know 2 charts, 1 with good news
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/reports.cgi?product=-All-datasets=UNCONFIRMED
and one with bad news:
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/reports.cgi?product=-All-datasets=CONFIRMED
I think we urgently need some assistance for the core developers by
interested newbie developers Does AOO have a systematic approach how to
interest new willing developers and to make sure that they have some sense
of achievement when they start? And is that promoted at prominent places?
We send new developers to this page, which shows them how to get
started with their first build:
http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-development.html
Of course I know http://openoffice.apache.org/get-involved.html, but to me
that all sounds bureaucratic and not very inviting.
I think we (additionally) need an alternative approach, let's call it Easy
Patches. My experience (as a not-developer, but engaged QA member) is that
smaller UI-patches are a nice way to get some first experience with th code
of the project; And mentoring for newbies does not cost too much time, a
simple you find the code in xy area and a review of the patch should be
enough in most cases.
We have something like this as well. We use the developer
difficulty field in Bugzilla to mark bugs that are easy or
simple. These are the ones we point new developers to.
Examples for bugs what might need an easy patch might be these [1], I think
there are a lot more.
Some of these might be candidates for easy hacks. I'll take a look.
A part of this idea is to create a short introduction in the Wiki with an
automatically generated list of such promising Easy Patch Bug reports, some
developers willing to mentor and a very short instruction how to start some
first steps to create a patch.
If we do it via Bugzilla then getting a report is easy. In fact it
can be a simple link to a query, yes?
Regards,
-Rob
Ideas, concerns, interest to support something like this?
Best regards
Rainer
Used Hyperlinks:
[1]
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?bug_id=124200%2C124186%2C124054%2C124046%2C124012%2C120850%2C89934%2C124183%2C124119%2C124035%2C123931%2C122712list_id=123278
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