Re: [gnome-love] Revitalising gnome-love ... some history

[Dave Malcolm <david davemalcolm demon co uk>]

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 00:13, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:

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> At the same time, we need to have something like a TODO list. When
> somebody comes along who may have experience ranging from "strange
> ability to crash applications" to "likes writing documentation" to
> "experienced programmer looking for something to do in spare time", we
> need to be able to point out low hanging fruit for them. Pointing
> somebody in the direction of bugzilla and saying "go for it" is, in a
> sense, professionally irresponsible. That is why my mail yesterday said
> that it is not possible to provide the required inspiration without
> planning here.

Perhaps Bugzilla _could_ be used though.  Maybe we could create a new
Bugzilla keyword:  "gnome-love":  it could be attached to bugs for
exactly the purpose of maintaining the gnome-love TODO i.e. a maintainer
adds it to a bug report that (s)he thinks might make a good introductory
task to help a new volunteer get "stuck in".  

Perhaps it's slightly different to "easy-fix" in that a bug might be a
substantial task, but at least it would be one that a new person could
attempt.

At least then the TODO list can be automated, and can filter out the
tasks that have already been done.

Plus you can have bugs that aren't bugs, but jobs that need doing.  
Some of my bugs in Conglomerate are of the "must have a think about such
and such and decide if we're going to implement it for the 1.0.0
release" or "must have a good attempt to crash the network code" -
Bugzilla as project management tool.

Though I'm kinda throwing ideas around here; actually having emails
discussing things on mailing lists has that personal touch that's
important when getting people motivated, I think.


> It is fairly easy to come up with ideas about how we can fix this.
> Without even trying, here we go... recreate the TODO list, create a Wiki
> to record projects, have a project of the week / month, have a
> suggestion list of the week posted here regularly. I could probably go
> on.

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