sajolida wrote (30 Nov 2015 14:43:33 GMT) :
> I think the hard problem here lies in
> these pages and do you get from landing on such a page and getting a new
> contributor on board (introducing, onboarding, etc.), not really in
> knowing the skill sets that are relevant and pointing to the right team.
I'm not sure this "team" approach matches the reality of how lots of
our code is maintained.
For a wannabe code contributor, finding what project they have the
skills to work on is currently very hard. I've spent countless hours
extracting e.g. Python tickets in our well stuffed list of "Easy"
tickets [1] for wannabe contributors who want to do Python.
If those Python coders had been pointed directly (e.g. via a web app)
to the list of projects (Installer, Greeter, etc.) that we have in
Python, then I could have spent more time onboarding them, and less
time doing the skills -> task mapping robot.
I don't know what's the solution to this problem, and I'm sure there
are better (and cheaper!) solutions than the one I mentioned initially
in this thread. But it's certainly a problem I've experienced
a few times :)
[1]
https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/tails/issues?query_id=112
Now I'm going to shut up in this thread. Cheers!
