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.