Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers
Quoting Stéphane Aulery (2014-11-11 13:51:50)
> Le mardi 11 novembre 2014 à 10:02:14, Christian Kastner a écrit :
> >
> > And I also fully agree that RFAs and Os are mostly uninteresting, but
> > doing general QA work is a very important way of contributing to Debian,
> > and I'm almost certain that many DDs would help more in this regard if
> > it didn't entail doing a whole RFA but fixing thing step-by-step
> > instead.
>
> I think the role of maintainer is quite heavy and I understand they are
> often discouraged by the magnitude of the task. That is why I contribute
> for a while by only triaging bug. Nothing like a little cleaning and
> maintenance to motivate the troops.
>
> A tag "easyhack" (or whatever) for BTS would be welcome, like the LibreOffice
> project Easy_Hacks made:
This already exists, see the tag "gift"[1].
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/GiftTag
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