[ckan-dev] Issues/Questions/Cry for help.

[Ross Jones]

Hi Stefan,

I'm pretty sure you'd be welcome to join in at the tech-team meetings (details at https://pad.okfn.org/p/ckan-meeting) if you've got the time or inclination.  That's where most of the tickets get assigned to those that are interested in working on them.  

Or, as you have been, do feel free to just jump in on open tickets that interest you :)  There's nearly always on IRC to answer any specific questions about any of the deep,dark corners (of which there are now much fewer than there used to be) - but it sounds like you've been finding your way around just fine ;) 

The up-for-grabs things seems interesting, will add it to the agenda for Tuesday's meeting to see what everyone thinks.

Cheers

Ross.


> On 7 Jan 2016, at 16:26, Stefan Oderbolz <stefan.oderbolz at liip.ch> wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I can only tell you, that I already feel very welcome and after now
> working with CKAN for ~3 years I feel comfortable to work on almost
> any ticket. My current way of contributing to CKAN is not to check for
> open issues, but rather fix things that I encounter myself (being it
> on one of the many instances I help maintain or while developing an
> extension).
> Aside from working on this for a customer project, my employer
> encourages me to spend 5% of my work time on CKAN development
> (~2h/week). And of course I use quite some of my free time, too.
> So yeah it's not much, but it's something.
> 
> Now the question is: where do I spend my time best? Maybe I should
> consider to include the open issues in my routine, just like I
> regularly check the mailing lists for questions I can answer.
> 
> To attract new people, the CKAN project could consider to sign up at
> http://up-for-grabs.net, a service targeted at people, who want to
> join the open source movement (I guess there must be more similar
> services around). So this would be an ideal place to promote the "Good
> for Contribution" issues.
> 
> - Stefan
> 
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Ross Jones <ross at servercode.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I hope everyone that had holidays recently had a relaxing break, and have managed to start 2016 with lots of energy!  I almost managed 1 out of the 2 ;)
>> 
>> After a marathon tech-team meeting today I noticed that we’ve got to 320 open issues, which are not evenly distributed and I thought it would be worth taking steps to rectify this before it gets even more out of hand.
>> 
>> My suggestions are:
>> 
>> 1. Remove the assignee if something has been marked good for contribution
>> 
>> 2. Close anything over 18 months old with a message asking for it to be re-opened if this is still an issue, and/or the reporter is willing to help.
>> 
>> 3. Hold an amnesty for users with large numbers of assigned bugs to allow the bugs to get re-distributed, specifically for issues that they don’t realistically think they’ll get around to.
>> 
>> 4. Encourage more people working with CKAN to contribute to core if/when they have time to do so.
>> 
>> 
>> 1-3 are really just general ticket gardening, but I think #4 is a pretty important one that is necessary if we’re to make CKAN ‘more awesome’ in 2016 and it is obviously very important for sustainability.
>> 
>> I’m not sure how to encourage more people to contribute to core - not necessarily a huge investment in time, just the occasional ticket or whatever they feel comfortable with.
>> 
>> So my questions are:
>> 
>> 1. Is everyone okay with points 1-3?
>> 
>> 2. Does anyone have suggestions for 4?
>> 
>> 3. Does anyone on the ML who uses CKAN (by writing extensions for instance) want to contribute more?  Is there something that impacts your decision to contribute or not? What can we do to help you start contributing?
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Ross
>> 
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