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Re: [Geotools-admin] new blood - committer sprint
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From: Andrea A. <and...@ge...> - 2011-05-10 09:07:26
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On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Jody Garnett <jod...@gm...> wrote: > The idea I had (which may or may not be good) is to have a small "Jira" > party; normally these are devoted to closing as many bugs as can be closed. > (Heck normally they are done by Andrea when I am not looking .... thank > Andrea). > The idea however would be to prep it up as a small code sprint; go and > pester downstream projects, the user list, and so forth - and ask if they > can spare some developers for the sprint. And focus on walking through the > steps to submit a patch; get it reviewed; and for the keen get three patches > reviewed and commit privileges. We may also be able to recruit so co-module > maintainers; or get some of the unsupported modules picked up. > I would be willing to contact the downstream projects; if the admin list > thinks this is a good idea. So you say, instead of the classic bug squash where we try to close as many bugs as possible, we sit there and try to tutor new developers into fixing the existing issues? May work, at the same time the code we have today is the result of many hands over many years and trying to address a large number of needs The library is just not simple, it's not like you can tutor someone in walking through it in a few hours. Another interesting exercise could be to try and write docs describing what a module does and and how. I'm pretty sure we'd find it difficult to explain the internals and get ideas on how to make it better. At the same time, good luck finding the time/funds to perform those changes.... Cheers Andrea -- ------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Andrea Aime GeoSolutions S.A.S. Tech lead Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 962313 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf ------------------------------------------------------- |
