On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Rainer Bielefeld <[email protected]> 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%2C122712&list_id=123278> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
