Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Christian Kastner wrote:
> With the recent gamification of just-about-everything, I was wondering
> whether following such an achievement-oriented approach, with
> opportunities for contribution formulated as a list of specific tasks,
> instead of general avenues, would be helpful in overcoming this initial
> difficulty. (This would be in addition to mentors.debian.net and other
> established avenues for entry to Debian, not a replacement).
Great idea, lets kick this off right here with a simple coding task!
> Tasks
> =====
>
> I see a task having, at least, the following properties:
>
> * A specific objective (bug fix, enhancement, debugging, cleanup,
> documentation, translation, ...). This should probably be tied to a
> Debian bug number.
I would like for check-all-the-things to have support matching files
based on MIME type and most of the existing tests to have associated
MIME types.
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/check-all-the-things.git
> * A description of the required skills (packaging, debugging, C, ...)
Python coding, git version control
> * A difficulty rating (1:low to 5:very high)
Relatively low (2)
> * An estimation for the amount of work to be done (hours, days)
1-2 hours
> * An urgency (influenced by severity, popcon, ...)
Low urgency.
> * A list of one or more mentors will to help.
I'll help.
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bye,
pabs
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