2009/12/4 Kathey Marsden :
> Benson Margulies wrote:
>>
>> CXF has a difficulty field like this. It's called Estimated Complexity
>> and is a dropdown containing:
>>
>> Unknown, Novice, Moderate, Advanced, Guru, Needs James Gosling.
>>
>
> I think we will find that different projects do this in a d
Benson Margulies wrote:
CXF has a difficulty field like this. It's called Estimated Complexity
and is a dropdown containing:
Unknown, Novice, Moderate, Advanced, Guru, Needs James Gosling.
I think we will find that different projects do this in a different
ways. Perhaps we should just hav
OK, I get it. Maybe the mentor taxonomy is more important, then. Looks
like the goal here is, across lots of projects, to tag off some JIRAs
that these people could tackle.
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Ross Gardler
wrote:
> 2009/12/4 Benson Margulies :
>> Very few new people ever have shown up
2009/12/4 Benson Margulies :
> Very few new people ever have shown up just randomly looking for
> things to do. They generally have bees in their hats on particular
> subjects, and set to work on them. So this field hasn't gotten a lot
> of exercise.
I think this is true for all projects, but here
CXF has a difficulty field like this. It's called Estimated Complexity
and is a dropdown containing:
Unknown, Novice, Moderate, Advanced, Guru, Needs James Gosling.
The mentor question is not included, since the presumption at CXF is
that there's always a mentor available, and the only issue is t
Ross Gardler wrote:
I propose that we should be working with projects to encourage them to
"tag" issues in JIRA that are suitable for various types of
introductory activities. So, for example, we might have:
- mentor (indicating that this is a fairly major task for which a
mentor is available)
-
I can help tagging JIRA's for Mahout, but I expect poor compliance by most
committers. If we have a default tag of "unknown", then just having a few
people interested in helping can triage issues pretty quickly. JIRA has
good bulk editing capabilities which would make this pretty easy to do.
On
I propose that we should be working with projects to encourage them to
"tag" issues in JIRA that are suitable for various types of
introductory activities. So, for example, we might have:
- mentor (indicating that this is a fairly major task for which a
mentor is available)
- entry (indicating tha
