Re: [gnome-love] OpenHatch.org indexing "gnome-love" bugs, and other ways to get new people involved

[Asheesh Laroia <asheesh openhatch org>]

Excerpts from Shaun McCance's message of Sat Apr 17 15:16:04 +0000 2010:
> On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 01:01 +0000, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> > Hey GNOME lovers,
> >
> > https://openhatch.org/search/?q=&toughness=bitesize shows "bite-size" bugs
> > across free software. It's a search engine for new contributors looking
> > for something to do. I was inspired by GNOME Love when I heard about it,
> > and I've since discovered many projects do something similar. We index
> > a bunch of bug trackers, including GNOME Bugzilla's gnome-love bugs.
>
> This is awesome. Seriously.

Thanks! (-:

I'm going to need as much help as I can get in making the site useful. I think
the above is a start, but I wonder: wouldn't it be nice to be able to try
assigning these "bitesize" bugs to people on a trial basis? If they succeed,
cool, and if not, a time counter would automatically un-assign the person.

That way you can use them to test out new people, and if things work out, great.
If not, then no biggie.

> > Of note, you can also search for not just coding bugs, but requests for
> > documentation. We rely on the tags people label bugs with in bug trackers,
> > and right now we have only found the Python (language) project marking
> > bugs that way. Do GNOME projects use a tag like gnome-love that means
> > a bug is an issue with or request for documentation?
>
> There's no tag. Each product generally has one (or more)
> component for documentation bugs. Some products are only
> documentation, like gnome-user-docs.

Component... okay. We should be able to handle that. I guess I will go through
each of the components sometime soon and add a query to GNOME Bugzilla looking
for documentation bugs.

https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue70

-- Asheesh.

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