[rust-dev] Mentoring + E-easy

2013-11-26 Thread Corey Richardson
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

Re: [rust-dev] Mentoring + E-easy

2013-11-26 Thread Brandon Sanderson
I'd definitely be in support of the change to easy tagging - I've seen quute a few issues where I've thought 'I could do this' but then realized I have no idea where to start. On 2013-11-26 12:59 AM, Corey Richardson co...@octayn.net wrote: Hey fellow Rusties, We have a fair number of new

Re: [rust-dev] Mentoring + E-easy

2013-11-26 Thread Gaetan
agree ! - Gaetan 2013/11/26 Brandon Sanderson singingb...@gmail.com I'd definitely be in support of the change to easy tagging - I've seen quute a few issues where I've thought 'I could do this' but then realized I have no idea where to start. On 2013-11-26 12:59 AM, Corey Richardson

Re: [rust-dev] Mentoring + E-easy

2013-11-26 Thread spir
On 11/26/2013 10:03 AM, Brandon Sanderson wrote: I'd definitely be in support of the change to easy tagging - I've seen quute a few issues where I've thought 'I could do this' but then realized I have no idea where to start. On 2013-11-26 12:59 AM, Corey Richardson co...@octayn.net wrote: Same

Re: [rust-dev] Mentoring + E-easy

2013-11-26 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
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

Re: [rust-dev] Mentoring + E-easy

2013-11-26 Thread Gaetan
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

Re: [rust-dev] Mentoring + E-easy

2013-11-26 Thread Nicholas Platt
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 gae...@xeberon.net