Missed that Thanks for the clarification! On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 02/08/2016 12:36 PM, Maxim Solodovnik wrote: > > Hello Daniel, > > > > Could you please describe a bit how JIRA issues are selected to be > > displayed? > > this [1] query return no results :(( > > > > [1] https://helpwanted.apache.org/listitems.lua?project=openmeetings > > > > It doesn't quite work that way. The whole issue here is that there is no > way to uniformly do this via JIRA or BugZilla, as they don't quite have > these sort of information fields, so this is an 'aside' to it. > > You have to add the tasks by clicking on the 'add/edit tasks' link at > the top of the front page, and then they'll show up. You can of course > link to a JIRA ticket inside the task. > > With regards, > Daniel. > > > > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > >> On 02/08/2016 11:53 AM, Francesco Chicchiriccò wrote: > >>> Just to show my appreciation: +1, looks very cool! > >>> > >>> Any idea of when we can start filling it up with real things? > >>> Thanks. > >> > >> I've already started deleting the test entries, so you could start using > >> it already if you like. I'll remove the warnings from the front page > then > >> :) > >> > >> With regards, > >> Daniel. > >> > >>> > >>> Regards. > >>> > >>> On 07/02/2016 17:01, Daniel Gruno wrote: > >>>> Hi ComDev folks! Ramblings incoming :) > >>>> > >>>> As an aside to the 'Guiding volunteers' thread, I was talking with > Rich > >>>> (Bowen) while he was at DevConf this weekend, and we got to thinking > >>>> whether it was possible to make a tiny tool that would solve one > >>>> specific issue we often come across when someone says "I know X, Y > and Z > >>>> - What can I do to help Apache?". > >>>> > >>>> Traditionally, we've said "subscribe to our mailing list (which > one?!)" > >>>> or "Go look at JIRA/BugZilla", which in itself is fine, but > off-putting > >>>> to many people as we don't actively use neither MLs or bug trackers to > >>>> advertise what we want done, and what tech/person skills would be > >>>> helpful where (we're terrible!). Furthermore, it is our > >>>> opinion/assessment that bug trackers are not that great from a "skills > >>>> -> tasks" perspective. While great for bugs and larger tasks for an > >>>> existing audience, they don't provide the right overview or search > >>>> features that one could want, and keeping some sort of uniform setup > for > >>>> these tasks across the ASF is going to be a LOT of work. > >>>> > >>>> ...If only we had somewhere someone could just go and say "I'm great > at > >>>> marketing and documentation, what tasks are there that I can do?" and > >>>> then get 10 different requests across 6 projects, some that you could > >>>> start on right away and some that require more intimate knowledge with > >>>> the project. > >>>> > >>>> ...Or the experienced C/Python programmer that wants to know which > tasks > >>>> at Apache they could hack on as a good introduction to that project, > >>>> while at the same time helping the project accomplish something new. > >>>> > >>>> ...Oh, and wouldn't it be nifty if we could have a widget we could > place > >>>> on our web site that lists what we as a project or foundation are > >>>> looking for right now in terms of work to be done, so when people > visit > >>>> our page, they can see that "hey, we're looking for a web dev guru - > is > >>>> that you?" ? > >>>> > >>>> Enter 'Help Wanted!'. It's a very small (and very much > work-in-progress) > >>>> tool that you can use to browse the tasks that all the Apache projects > >>>> would like to get done, see the difficulty of it, language (whether > >>>> spoken/written or programming) skills needed, what it's about and > >>>> who/how to contact. You can also use the HW widget to plug your own > >>>> project's requests into your web site, or you can display all the > >>>> current tasks waiting in the system across the ASF. 350+ initiatives, > >>>> 170+ TLPs, one uniform hub for requests that can help people get > started > >>>> with Apache. > >>>> > >>>> The code is "live" at: https://helpwanted.apache.org/ > >>>> A test widget is here: https://helpwanted.apache.org/wtest.html > >>>> (the test widget shows what it could look like on the httpd site) > >>>> > >>>> It's open for all committers to go set up new tasks (universal commit > >>>> bit, so to speak, just click on 'edit tasks'), and we hope it will be > a > >>>> hub for putting people on the right path - whether that be a pointer > to > >>>> JIRA, ML etc - to contributing to our projects. Or it'll crash and > burn > >>>> and we'll never speak of it again :) > >>>> > >>>> Contributions, feedback, quality control etc are MOST WELCOME, and > we're > >>>> only getting started with the proof-of-concept right now (as found in > >>>> svn). Hopefully we'll have something stable and polished by the end of > >>>> February? :) > >>>> > >>>> With regards, > >>>> Daniel. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> PS: Yes, I know the admin area is a stylistic nightmare. That'll be > >>>> fixed...eventually! And the task guide needs a LOT of work. Saying > >>>> "contact the dev list" isn't enough, but I'll need a word smith for > >>>> that :) > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- WBR Maxim aka solomax
