Re: Introducing CoreHacks

Hey,

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Noel Grandin <noelgrandin@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think we have a MediumHack whiteboard tag?


The only reference to that in bugzilla seems to be:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56902

Regards,
Markus


> On Sunday, 8 March 2015, Markus Mohrhard <markus.mohrhard@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > our EasyHacks are a nice way for new contributors to start working on
> > LibreOffice and get a feeling for the code base. As we discussed in the ESC
> > we are not doing a good job to help these people migrate from solving
> > EasyHacks to doing normal LibreOffice development independently of a mentor.
> >
> > The problem of not being able to help them means that some of them are
> > stuck in working on EasyHacks for a long time. This creates several
> > problems for us:
> >
> > * no new blood in the core developers
> > * "experienced" developers solve tasks that need core developers as
> > mentors
> > * may interesting projects are never done
> >
> > To mitigate these issue I'm pleased to announce Core Hacks (ideas for a
> > better name are appreciated), the missing step between Easy Hacks and core
> > developers. A Core Hack is still a mentored task but requires more
> > independent work from the developer. I have created a wiki page [1] where I
> > currently list the ones that I know and where you can add your own ideas.
> >
> > I ask all developers to look out for people who have solved a few easy
> > hacks already and who should maybe move on to the next step.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Markus
> >
> > [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/CoreHacks