[ adding soc-coordination in the loop ] On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 03:44:35PM +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote: > Hello everybody, Hi Daniel, sorry for the terrible (vacation-induced :)) lag. > in Ubuntu we recently started some Bug Fixing initiatives, where we > tried to single out a number of bugs which are suitable for new > contributors who are interested in giving back, but don't quite yet know > where to start. I'm very much interested in this topic. I've looked with a lot of interest initiatives like LibreOffice's "easy hacks" and how effective they could be in attracting new contributors. Also, related to this, in the past we didn't manage to participate in initiatives like Google Code-In due to the lack of such a list of "easy hacks". And for similar reasons we don't have a presence on initiatives like OpenHatch as effective as it could be. I've seen you've already discussed briefly how to find "easy hacks" based on specific Lintian tags. I haven't re-reviewed tags to name some more (sorry about that), but I think it might be one way to go. Anyone else on -qa has specific tags to propose for this initiative? But I'm interested in considering other, even radically different approach. In particular, I dream of social initiatives that can encourage *people* (maintainers or not) tagging actual bugs in the BTS as easy hacks. In fact, we already have technical support for that. The pesudo tag "gift" in devscripts' bts was introduced quite a while ago for this specific reason [1,2]. But it has never really worked out, as you can observe from the sorrow size of the "gifted" bugs list [3]. Maybe the name we chose back then was not appropriate ("easy" might be better), but truth is: we've never really find out how to socially promote this enough, to turn gift-tagging into a social effort. Maybe you can integrate that aspect in what you're trying to do? Or, if anyone have any suggestion on how to turn gift-tagging into an effective social initiative ... I'll be happy to hear! [1] http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/GiftTag [2] http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2008/08/PTS_integrated_with_mentors_and_gifts/ [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-qa@lists.debian.org;tag=gift Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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