Hey, On 01/09/16 18:46, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 01:03:39AM +0200, Tomasz Nitecki wrote: >> <CUT> >> Since you can easily configure how-can-i-help to ignore those bugs >> (section 'IGNORE SELECTED TYPES OF OPPORTUNITIES' in manpage), I'd >> rather leave it as it is. > > Unless I miss something, how-can-i-help is primarily a tool for giving > newcomers suggestions where they could start contributing and current > Debian developers suggestions where they could expand their work on > Debian. > > While doing special QA cleanup tasks is helpful and appreciated, the > information about ITAs you use for some very specific QA work is not > useful for the target audience of how-can-i-help.
I'm afraid that you are mistaken about how-can-i-help being specifically targeted at newcomers. Just as the description says [1], it's a tool designed to show opportunities for contributing. How-can-i-help is supposed to be configurable enough to be useful for everyone, regardless of their experience level. That is why we are showing RFS opportunities (those are useful mostly for DDs as they are the only ones that can sponsor) or ITAs. It is also why we are going to get notified when a package was removed from testing over a year ago - it is also an opportunity for contribution, but not necessarily one that is a good starting point for a newcomer. And that is also why a user can configure how-can-i-help to show (or hide) specific opportunity types. Newcomer can configure it to show only 'newcomer' opportunities, veteran DD might like to be shown everything. [1] 'show opportunities for contributing to Debian' > I fully understand the value of a "debian-qa-helper" tool that lists for > example all ITA bugs and also has them ordered by date of the latest > update to the bug (for finding stale ITAs). But that would be > a different tool for a quite different target audience. Still, I do agree that for different audiences we might consider showing different opportunity types by default. Probably something akin to reportbug 'tell me how competent do you feel' and the preconfiguring how-can-i-help depending on the answer. Or maybe we can just add some configuration templates (like 'newcomers', 'sponsorships', etc.) that can be chosen by the user? Regards, T.
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