Re: [libreoffice-website] [Proposal] A central employment-office-like web structure for LibO volunteers

Gianluca Turconi wrote:

> Developers are several grade of magnitude more important than any other
> contributor for a *software* project like LibreOffice.

Absolutely true.

> Since "expert developers don't grew on trees", there must be a mean,
> whatever mean, in order to increase occasional developing contributions
> and to transform those one-time contributions into a more reliable and
> expert contribution.

I think that developers are already working on this issue, as the number 
of more regular contributors is increasing. Anyway, I would ask 
developers how can we help them in improving the mechanism, and making 
it more visible.

> I know developers have their bugzilla and their mailing lists, but when
> an independent, new developer approaches for the first time the project,
> he doesn't know anything about mailing lists (Libreoffice vs
> freedesktop.org ones?!), other developers' roles, tasks which he can
> complete. In a sentence: he doesn't know anything about how the dev part
> of the project works.

The easy hacks mechanism created by Michael and Caolan, with the help of 
the other core developers, seems to work for those willing to get their 
hands dirty.

I think that development wise we should just make the story more 
popular, and help in forwarding would be developers into the easy hacks 
area. Once they start working at these tasks, they have their own ways 
to nurture the process.

> I don't want to force developers to abandon bugzilla, it's impossible,
> but rather to provide a more friendly entry level for those new
> developers who approach the project, a mean that can be used to spread
> expertise about sinple and more complex dev tasks and to lessen the now
> very steep learning curve about how the LibO code works.

Developers use quite a lot IRC channels. It is a parallel world, at 
least I see it as a parallel world.

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