At 5:01 PM +0000 1/12/04, Harry Jackson wrote:
Tim Bunce wrote:
and am always worried about making an ass of myself when posting.
Dammit, and here I was trying to lead by example. It's OK! :)
Smoothing the path for newcommers, of both types, is very important.
I spent quite a bit of time fishing around the outskirts for stuff to do ie looking for some simple tasks etc and was dismayed to find none. There are no lists of things anywhere although I believe Leo compiled one which got warnocked.
I know its a pain but a list of easy to complete tasks would be rather helpful for any shy lurkers with some pointers on where to start maybe not now but later.
I try to throw out mail to the list when there's something simple that needs doing, but those haven't been gathered up into a TODO list or anything. While not a good thing, it increases their odds of making it out, at the expense of things falling off the end of the world.
I have noticed a few of them and I think they should be compiled into a list.
In fact, there's a job for someone if they want it.
One of the shy lurkers who emailed me off list (you know who you are) suggested something similar to what the linux kernel guys have. I have no idea how successful this is:
http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org/
Would people be interested in a similar thing to this. This question is really aimed at the lurkers who are willing to contribute some of their time, so speak up if you're one of them.
Harry
