Re: KDE's Junior Jobs equivalent for Gnome

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 12:30 +0200, Jo Vermeulen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The people of the KDE project [1] tag some bugs as "Junior Jobs",
> which means they are fairly easy to fix or implement. New contributors
> can then choose one of these jobs to get into hacking KDE. There have
> been a couple of articles ([2], [3]) on KDE Dot News [4] about this.

This is what the "easy-fix" keyword is for; maintainers are meant to add
this keyword to bugs that would be easy for a new contributor to fix.
Unfortunately this isn't used as much as we would like.

We also have the gnome-love project and mailing list to provide help to
people new to contributing.

Thanks,

Andrew