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Hello Steve,<br>
Nice initiative, I really appreciate this, just some points for
consideration:<br>
- You forgot to mention the most important motivation to one start
contributing IMHO, which is to fix what bothers he/she the most.
Jannis wrote a nice article about this very matter:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gezeiten.org/pre-2014/post/2012/11/How-to-start-contributing-to-Xfce-or-any-other-open-source-project">http://gezeiten.org/pre-2014/post/2012/11/How-to-start-contributing-to-Xfce-or-any-other-open-source-project</a><br>
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- I feel that the bugs reported on this page will become outdated
very soon, unless someone gets paid to fight against that :)<br>
I wonder if there's a way to mark bugs on bugzilla as "good for
starters" or something like that and then put a link on the wiki to
filter these bugs.<br>
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- This one is a bit off topic, anyway... currently the standard way
to "submit code" is via patches. With the recently created Xfce
mirrors on github, contribution becomes much more easier if we merge
from there (I not talking about push requests). So, would it be a
nice idea to encourage people to work with github or is there a
compelling reason to keep brewing patches?<br>
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- This page needs some visibility, maybe a bit word of mouth via g+,
facebook and the kind or even better, a blog entry about the matter
pointing out this page and as mentioned in another thread those blog
entries should be visible in the main page.<br>
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André Miranda<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17-02-2015 13:22, Steve
Dodier-Lazaro wrote:<br>
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<div>Hey everyone,<br>
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In order to attract new contributors to Xfce, I'm starting a
"list of easy bugs": <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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This list is not for *us* to fix, but for newcomers who would
be intimidated by more complex bugs. Of course the list is
good only if populated. I propose we aim to have 2-ish bugs
per component on the list. So, if you've got a report which
you know requires little knowledge / has little potential for
breakage, and which you're too busy or lazy to fix right now,
send me the bug report and I'll add it to the list (or add it
yourself :-) ).<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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<div class="gmail_signature">Steve Dodier-Lazaro<br>
PhD Student<br>
University College London<br>
Free Software Developer<br>
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