[General] [Proposal] Getting Involved / HelpUs

[Ted Leung]

One of the things that we need to do around Preview is to make it  
easier for people to figure out how they can get involved.  At the  
moment, we have a Get Involved link on each of  
chandler.osafoundation.org <http://chandler.osafoundation.org/ 
getinvolved.php> and cosmo.osafoundation.org <http:// 
cosmo.osafoundation.org/getinvolved.php>.   The Chandler page points  
to a wiki HelpUs page <http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/HelpUs>,  
while the Cosmo page contains a link to a hopelessly out of data  
Bugzilla query.

I'd propose the following:

* We use a link called "Getting Involved" as opposed to "For  
Developers", since we want to people besides developers get involved
* We  we try and unify as many of the items from the current Get  
Involved pages into a single page that could be linked from the main  
"Get Involved" link.
* We have project specific sub sections or different pages, one for  
the desktop and another for the server
* In keeping with Katie's message <http://lists.osafoundation.org/ 
pipermail/chandler-dev/2007-July/008507.html> about reducing the  
usage wiki pages for projects, i propose that we convert all projects  
currently listed on the HelpUs page to bugzilla bugs, with a HelpUs  
keyword.    We can use the Bugzilla Query TWiki plugin to get an in  
line display of the current project list.   This will then be our  
sole method of managing projects that would be good entry points for  
people new to one of the projects.

If that proposal is acceptable, someone from each of the desktop and  
server teams needs to look at the existing set of projects and  
determine what is still valid, and add any other projects which are  
not captured as bugs.    I will do this for the server team, but I  
need some from the desktop team to look at the desktop side.

Ted