For the last months I have been going through Bugzilla and what strikes me is that we are not using it as efficiently as other communities do. In particular, there is little follow up to reported problems (as Leo mentioned as well). On the short term, I think we can have a bugathon to clean up the buglist a little bit and re-energize some community members:
Have a bugathon where we label a lot of bugs as appropriate bugathon bugs that need either: a) test patch / update patch to recent svn version a) confirmation / replication of new / unconfirmed bugs We can provide a simple ready to go Wiki installation for people to use for bug triaging and that way we can re-energize developers and clean up some of the backlog of bugs. Is this something that we should be doing? On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Leo <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Samstag, 12. Februar 2011 at 17:55, David Gerard wrote: > > How to grow your contributor community (and how to decimate it): > > > > http://www.codesimplicity.com/post/open-source-community-simplified/ > > > > and imo, wikimedia fails at a lot of these points: > > *Quote: "Respond to contributions immediately." > This is what I think bugs me the most. There are heaps of bugs which have > had patches attached for month or years. For newcomers, who maybe spent a > lot of time on these, it's just rude to neither commit them nor explain why > they can't be committed immidiately. > > *Create and document communication channels. > This has been talked about before, and maybe it did indeed get it little > better. > > Leo > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
