Re: Help wanted for a better "Help Wanted"

[Zhe Liu <al...@gmail.com>]

+1!
As a newcomer, after reading the out-of-date short "Help Wanted" page
and other materials,  I still have no idea where I can help the
project. A detail task is helpful for me to get started.

2011/12/1 Rob Weir <ro...@apache.org>:
> I had someone contact me off list asking how they could help with the
> project.  The person pointed this this page, but noted it appeared out
> of date:
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Help+Wanted
>
> Indeed it is :-(
>
> How could we improve on this?
>
> Some options (and I'm sure there are others):
>
> 1. Use the wiki, but keep this more up to date.  This is easy to
> maintain for us, but doesn't scale that well after we get past a few
> dozen items.
>
> 2. Use Bugzilla.  Have some way of marking an issue by level of
> difficulty, or ones that are especially good for new volunteers.  Have
> a query that can pull up these issues.
>
> 3. Use an external service, like OpenHatch:  http://openhatch.org/
> ("An open source community aiming to help newcomers find their way
> into free software projects."
>
> This could be used in conjunction with #2, to promote volunteer
> opportunities via their aptly named "volunteer opportunity finder".
> You indicate what BZ keywords indicate "bitesized" issues or
> "documentation" issues and these are advertised for volunteers to see.
>
> We didn't have BZ set up when I added the "help wanted" page to the
> wiki back in June.  So maybe the best approach is some combination of
> 2 & 3?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> I'm willing to help.  But I'd need some BZ admin assistance.
>
> -Rob
>

Re: Help wanted for a better "Help Wanted"

[Rob Weir <ro...@apache.org>]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Donald Whytock <dw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> OpenHatch looks good.  In fact, I'm surprised there aren't other
> Apache projects in there already.
>
> MediaWiki is listed there, and is explicitly asking for translators.
> Seems like a good example for OOo to follow.
>

OK. I do have an Apache OpenOffice project there :

http://openhatch.org/+projects/Apache%20OpenOffice

Help is welcome filling out the profile, and especially with the
Bugzilla integration.

> Don

Re: Help wanted for a better "Help Wanted"

[Donald Whytock <dw...@gmail.com>]

OpenHatch looks good.  In fact, I'm surprised there aren't other
Apache projects in there already.

MediaWiki is listed there, and is explicitly asking for translators.
Seems like a good example for OOo to follow.

Don