Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers
On 2014-11-09 22:44, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Nov 2014, 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).
>
> This is an avenue that I'm interested in exploring for the BTS as well,
> so if people have good ideas, or want to be involved with this, please
> contact me in #debbugs on irc.debian.org, or email
> owner@bugs.debian.org.
I think that using the BTS for this would be the ideal scenario.
A number of other (or additional) solutions have also been proposed
which sound interestung but TBH, I'm not a fan adding
yet-another-service that might eventually start to rot. There really
should be a significant value added.
I'll create a wiki page to collect the problem definition and the
possible solutions discussed so far, and some possible workflows.
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