Re: [PROPOSAL] give wiki write access to any existing ASF committer

2009-12-04 Thread Luciano Resende
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > 2009/12/4 Luciano Resende : >> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Kathey Marsden >> wrote: >>> Ross Gardler wrote: We've not really discussed who should have access to the comdev resources. I'd like to propose that, in the short te

Re: Hello

2009-12-04 Thread Benson Margulies
I have a login. On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEVxSITE/Index > > 2009/12/4 Benson Margulies : >> Well, when I go to cwiki.apache.org, I get a directory listing, so I >> can't tell. Something is amiss. >> >> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009

Re: [PROPOSAL] give wiki write access to any existing ASF committer

2009-12-04 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/12/4 Luciano Resende : > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Kathey Marsden > wrote: >> Ross Gardler wrote: >>> >>> We've not really discussed who should have access to the comdev >>> resources. I'd like to propose that, in the short term, we grant write >>> access to anyone who has earned commit

Re: [PROPOSAL] give wiki write access to any existing ASF committer

2009-12-04 Thread Luciano Resende
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Kathey Marsden wrote: > Ross Gardler wrote: >> >> We've not really discussed who should have access to the comdev >> resources. I'd like to propose that, in the short term, we grant write >> access to anyone who has earned committership on any project in the >> ASF

Re: Tagging issues in projects

2009-12-04 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/12/4 Kathey Marsden : > Benson Margulies wrote: >> >> CXF has a difficulty field like this. It's called Estimated Complexity >> and is a dropdown containing: >> >> Unknown, Novice, Moderate, Advanced, Guru, Needs James Gosling. >> > > I think we will find that different projects do this in a d

Re: Hello

2009-12-04 Thread Ross Gardler
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEVxSITE/Index 2009/12/4 Benson Margulies : > Well, when I go to cwiki.apache.org, I get a directory listing, so I > can't tell. Something is amiss. > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Ross Gardler > wrote: >> 2009/12/4 Benson Margulies : >>> The ment

Re: Hello

2009-12-04 Thread Benson Margulies
I don't think so, and as per other message I seem terminally befuddled about interacting with cwiki. On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > 2009/12/4 Benson Margulies : >> The mentor page needs some editing, where's the source? > > It's in cwiki, that's why I am proposing to give a

Re: Hello

2009-12-04 Thread Benson Margulies
Well, when I go to cwiki.apache.org, I get a directory listing, so I can't tell. Something is amiss. On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > 2009/12/4 Benson Margulies : >> The mentor page needs some editing, where's the source? > > It's in cwiki, that's why I am proposing to give a

Re: [PROPOSAL] give wiki write access to any existing ASF committer

2009-12-04 Thread Kathey Marsden
Ross Gardler wrote: We've not really discussed who should have access to the comdev resources. I'd like to propose that, in the short term, we grant write access to anyone who has earned committership on any project in the ASF (including incubating projects). I think it is fine and just post a

Re: Tagging issues in projects

2009-12-04 Thread Kathey Marsden
Benson Margulies wrote: CXF has a difficulty field like this. It's called Estimated Complexity and is a dropdown containing: Unknown, Novice, Moderate, Advanced, Guru, Needs James Gosling. I think we will find that different projects do this in a different ways. Perhaps we should just hav

Re: Hello

2009-12-04 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/12/4 Benson Margulies : > The mentor page needs some editing, where's the source? It's in cwiki, that's why I am proposing to give access to all committers. if it were in SVN you could supply patches, but in CWiki it's a problem. Do you have a login for cwiki.apache.org? Ross > > On Fri, D

Re: Hello

2009-12-04 Thread Benson Margulies
The mentor page needs some editing, where's the source? On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > 2009/12/4 Benson Margulies : >> As per some conversations on members@, here I am looking for something >> useful to do :-) > > Great to see you. We're just getting started so pitch in or

Re: [PROPOSAL] give wiki write access to any existing ASF committer

2009-12-04 Thread Benson Margulies
I like this. It's a way to suck in people with useful information to contribute. Later, as you say, some trimming will reduce the number of wandering fragmentary contributions. On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > We've not really discussed who should have access to the comdev >

Re: Tagging issues in projects

2009-12-04 Thread Benson Margulies
OK, I get it. Maybe the mentor taxonomy is more important, then. Looks like the goal here is, across lots of projects, to tag off some JIRAs that these people could tackle. On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > 2009/12/4 Benson Margulies : >> Very few new people ever have shown up

[PROPOSAL] give wiki write access to any existing ASF committer

2009-12-04 Thread Ross Gardler
We've not really discussed who should have access to the comdev resources. I'd like to propose that, in the short term, we grant write access to anyone who has earned committership on any project in the ASF (including incubating projects). My reasoning is that we need to generate (and collate) cle

Re: Hello

2009-12-04 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/12/4 Benson Margulies : > As per some conversations on members@, here I am looking for something > useful to do :-) Great to see you. We're just getting started so pitch in or address your own interest. Currently in planning: Mentor programme: http://community.apache.org/mentoringprogramme.

Re: Tagging issues in projects

2009-12-04 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/12/4 Benson Margulies : > Very few new people ever have shown up just randomly looking for > things to do. They generally have bees in their hats on particular > subjects, and set to work on them. So this field hasn't gotten a lot > of exercise. I think this is true for all projects, but here

Re: Tagging issues in projects

2009-12-04 Thread Benson Margulies
CXF has a difficulty field like this. It's called Estimated Complexity and is a dropdown containing: Unknown, Novice, Moderate, Advanced, Guru, Needs James Gosling. The mentor question is not included, since the presumption at CXF is that there's always a mentor available, and the only issue is t

Hello

2009-12-04 Thread Benson Margulies
As per some conversations on members@, here I am looking for something useful to do :-)

Re: Tagging issues in projects

2009-12-04 Thread Kathey Marsden
Ross Gardler wrote: I propose that we should be working with projects to encourage them to "tag" issues in JIRA that are suitable for various types of introductory activities. So, for example, we might have: - mentor (indicating that this is a fairly major task for which a mentor is available) -

Added FAQ about seeking user support

2009-12-04 Thread Ross Gardler
in response to Comdev-4 I add a FAQ to guide people totally lost like this, please improve as you see fit. http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEVxSITE/NewbieFAQ -- Ross Gardler OSS Watch - supporting open source in education and research http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk