Rob Weir wrote:
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Keith N. McKenna
<[email protected]> wrote:
RGB ES wrote:
2013/3/19 Rob Weir <[email protected]>
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Keith N. McKenna
<[email protected]> wrote:
RGB ES wrote:
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Hi Ricardo;
I appreciate the link and hopefully it will prompt people to start using
it
more. I have been wracking my brains trying to think of ways to get more
people interested. We seem to have had a flurry after the initial
announcement, but except for a few entries in the status document I see
nothing except your excellent work. We need to figure out some way to
attract people with the skill and knowledge to start on the other
applications.
I think we need more "hand holding" and guidance for new volunteers.
Just pointing them to wiki is not enough. With QA new volunteers I
gave them specific assignments at first, e.g., review these 10 bug
reports. I know it sounds odd to "assign" tasks to volunteers, but
until they find their way around and self-assign tasks, this is a good
way for them to get started. In return, with QA, I promised to review
their early work and give them feedback.
So I wonder if we can come up with set of specific tasks, of various
sizes, from 1 to 8 hours, and specifically asked new volunteers to
pick from that list? It might work better.
It is certainly worth a try. We have hard virtually nothing from many of the
volunteers since there initial contact.
Another thing would be for one of the moderators of the mailing list
to cross reference current list subscribers with those who said they
wanted to help. Some of them may not have subscribed to the list.
With the QA team I did that and then sent reminders to those who were
not yet signed up.
I am not a moderator but if one can get the list and e-mail it to me I
will do the cross check and send out the reminders.
Keith
Any moderator can request the subscriber list by sending this commend
from their moderator email address: [email protected]
Although you should not share the list publicly, since it has
everyone's email address, it would be interesting to know how many
people are subscribed in total.
-Rob
That's a good idea. The tasks I can think of are two:
- Proofreading of still not checked pages
- Accuracy / clarity: ask the volunteer to follow the steps described to
see if they work or not.
Is version 4.0 far enough along in the development cycle that accuracy
checking is feasible or should we have 2 rounds of checking? The first
against 3.4.1 to clean up any problems there and then a second more in depth
one when 4.0 is more stable.
Regards
Ricardo
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