[proposal] Volunteers Needed Wiki

[Sean Schofield <se...@gmail.com>]

I'm thinking of starting a "Volunteers Needed" wiki.  We can refer to
it from the "How can I contribute" area of our website as well. 
Basically it is a list of outstanding things that we need help on.

One example is older patches that users have submitted before SVN or
SVN reorg.  Its time consuming to go through these patches and convert
them.  Often times the original reporter is unavailable to do this. 
Another example is when someone submits code and it needs to be ported
from tomahawk to sandbox or we need examples or better docs for a
specific component.

What do you think?  It will obviously work best if all of the
committers make use of it and we periodically nag the mailing lists
about its existence. ;-)

sean

Re: [proposal] Volunteers Needed Wiki

[Sean Schofield <se...@gmail.com>]

Now we just need a volunteer to setup the Wiki ;-)

ps. I am working on a release plan wiki also.  

On 8/11/05, Grant Smith <gr...@marathon-man.com> wrote:
> Sounds like a good idea. +1
> 
> Sean Schofield wrote:
> 
> >I'm thinking of starting a "Volunteers Needed" wiki.  We can refer to
> >it from the "How can I contribute" area of our website as well.
> >Basically it is a list of outstanding things that we need help on.
> >
> >One example is older patches that users have submitted before SVN or
> >SVN reorg.  Its time consuming to go through these patches and convert
> >them.  Often times the original reporter is unavailable to do this.
> >Another example is when someone submits code and it needs to be ported
> >from tomahawk to sandbox or we need examples or better docs for a
> >specific component.
> >
> >What do you think?  It will obviously work best if all of the
> >committers make use of it and we periodically nag the mailing lists
> >about its existence. ;-)
> >
> >sean
> >
> >.
> >
> >
> >
> 
>

Re: [proposal] Volunteers Needed Wiki

[Grant Smith <gr...@marathon-man.com>]

Sounds like a good idea. +1

Sean Schofield wrote:

>I'm thinking of starting a "Volunteers Needed" wiki.  We can refer to
>it from the "How can I contribute" area of our website as well. 
>Basically it is a list of outstanding things that we need help on.
>
>One example is older patches that users have submitted before SVN or
>SVN reorg.  Its time consuming to go through these patches and convert
>them.  Often times the original reporter is unavailable to do this. 
>Another example is when someone submits code and it needs to be ported
>from tomahawk to sandbox or we need examples or better docs for a
>specific component.
>
>What do you think?  It will obviously work best if all of the
>committers make use of it and we periodically nag the mailing lists
>about its existence. ;-)
>
>sean
>
>.
>
>  
>

Re: [proposal] Volunteers Needed Wiki

[Martin Cooper <ma...@apache.org>]

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Sean Schofield wrote:

> I'm thinking of starting a "Volunteers Needed" wiki.  We can refer to
> it from the "How can I contribute" area of our website as well.
> Basically it is a list of outstanding things that we need help on.

I'm hoping you mean a wiki _page_ and not a whole new wiki. Assuming this 
is the case, I think that's a fine idea, as long as it gets maintained.

--
Martin Cooper


> One example is older patches that users have submitted before SVN or
> SVN reorg.  Its time consuming to go through these patches and convert
> them.  Often times the original reporter is unavailable to do this.
> Another example is when someone submits code and it needs to be ported
> from tomahawk to sandbox or we need examples or better docs for a
> specific component.
>
> What do you think?  It will obviously work best if all of the
> committers make use of it and we periodically nag the mailing lists
> about its existence. ;-)
>
> sean
>