We are in the process of establishing a developer lab for the OLPC project here in New Zealand and the Pacific, and we are documenting as we go some protocol, at least this end that rapidly brings new coders engaging in the project on board.
Sourcing the initial activities and priorities on the project requires a great deal of investigative work, and then getting some fairly good bench mark knowledge of both code, bugs and indeed the hardware itself quite a major job, and for that reason we have effectively set up a developer customer service desk this end - as we model this it may or may not be helpful for the wider OLPC developer group of engaging hackers coming into the fold. We are meeting with Walter and Jim on the 30 April and will run through the documentation and what is working this end. It tends to be more than just wiki, indexing and bug tracking and coming more down to a quick help desk, customer service - managed by key people with ability to source information at pace. This can be done electronically too, although not especially for developers a system like www.jyve.com would be great Mike Usmar OLPC NZ/Pacific Development Group -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Follower Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 3:24 AM To: Sugar List Subject: Re: [sugar] New developers... how to place them? Hi, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > * We tried to do this with track before. There is still a list of > tickets but... it has not been well maintained recently: > > http://dev.laptop.org/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&keywo rds=%7Esugar-love&order=priority > > Maybe something on the wiki would be easier for people to look at, > unsure. As someone who would probably be classed as a "new developer" to the project I think the "sugar-love" (or equivalent) keyword in trac issues is a good approach: * It's low maintenance--to make it work just requires someone to add a keyword in a Trac entry. I _think_ it's also possible to auto-generate a list of these in a page in the Wiki if desired. * There's a precedent in other large projects: e.g. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLove * It encourages new developers to become familiar with project infrastructure such as Trac. My $0.02... --Phil. _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/sugar _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/sugar
