Re: Lowering the barrier

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On Nov 11, 2007 3:16 AM, Sebastian Pölsterl <marduk k-d-w org> wrote:
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> Who schrieb:>
> > *** In the case of 'Gnome Love' bugs - perhaps people people could
> > offer to 'mentor' on them, so anyone needing to ask questions in
> > attempts to fix them can have a ready contact. I understand, of
> > course, that time is important and it may well be quicker for that
> > mentor to fix the bug themselves - even so, perhaps it is worth it?
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> I totally agree on this. Each GNOME love bugs should have a mentor and a
> short explanation how to contact that mentor. If you know that you can
> ask someone who's familiar with the particular application it's much
> much easier to start contributing, instead of programming without
> "supervision" where you'll feel lost pretty soon.

Go to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/gnome-love.cgi.  You'll see
the following:

This report shows bugs marked with the gnome-love keyword. That
keyword is used as follows:
    Marking a bug with this keyword means that you're willing to help
someone fix the bug, or that it should be fixable by a beginner
without any help. This should ONLY be set by a maintainer or people
familiar with the code base, and ONLY when it looks like a project
suitable for a new developer looking for a task.

The report also lists who marked the bug with the gnome-love keyword,
and if you are logged in you can get anyone's account name (i.e. email
address) in bugzilla.

The same text describing the gnome-love keyword can be found at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/describekeywords.cgi.


Is the gnome-love keyword being misused, or are potential contributors
just unaware of this?