[General] [Proposal] Getting Involved / HelpUs

[Philippe Bossut]

Hi,

+1 overall, details here under:

Ted Leung wrote:
> * We use a link called "Getting Involved" as opposed to "For 
> Developers", since we want to people besides developers get involved
+1, this has a better chance to be read by a larger audience
> * 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
+1 to those 2
> * 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.
+1, we already have a "helpus" keyword for Chandler Desktop. I can help 
you to consolidate and move things to Bugzilla on the Desktop side.

Cheers,
- Philippe