<div dir="ltr"><div>Forwarding from GRASS dev mailing list, as a good example to follow. @Mentors: remember to offer to your would-be students code challenges to evaluate their capabilities with the development environment. @Students: if you're not offered code challenges, find them for yourselves browsing the bug tracker, and discuss patches in the dev mailing lists of your chosen project. This will demonstrate you're proactive and capable, and will likely increase your chances to be selected.</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Vaclav Petras</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wenzeslaus@gmail.com">wenzeslaus@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 4:05 AM<br>Subject: [GRASS-dev] Helping beginners and GSoC students find simple problems to tackle<br>To: "<a href="mailto:grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org">grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org">grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear all,<br><br></div>we suggest specific tickets to GSoC often tailored to a specific GSoC idea they are interested in. However, in general it is hard to find a right topic for a person who wants to start contributing to GRASS GIS (as opposed to writing additional modules with some specific functionality).<br><br></div><div>I suggest introducing some special keyword (tag) to Trac tickets which would mark the ticket as suitable/recommended for contributors-beginners.<br><br>Tag "beginners" seems to refer to problems affecting the beginners (the users). Tag "simple" may not be good either, because how simple it is quite relative. Perhaps there can be a special property to show estimated complexity of solving the ticket.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,<br></div><div>Vaclav<br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div><div><div><br></div><div>PS: Currently, the following queries give many tickets which might be suitable for contributors-beginners:<br></div><div><br>Trivial:<br><div><br><a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/query?priority=trivial&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&max=500&col=id&col=summary&col=priority&col=status&col=owner&col=type&col=milestone&order=priority" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/q<wbr>uery?priority=trivial&status=a<wbr>ssigned&status=new&status=reop<wbr>ened&max=500&col=id&col=summar<wbr>y&col=priority&col=status&col=<wbr>owner&col=type&col=milestone&o<wbr>rder=priority</a><br><br>Minor:<br><div><br><a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/query?priority=minor&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&max=500&col=id&col=summary&col=priority&col=status&col=type&col=owner&col=milestone&order=priority" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/q<wbr>uery?priority=minor&status=ass<wbr>igned&status=new&status=reopen<wbr>ed&max=500&col=id&col=summary&<wbr>col=priority&col=status&col=ty<wbr>pe&col=owner&col=milestone&ord<wbr>er=priority</a><br><br></div><div>Normal enhancement:<br></div><div><br><a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/query?priority=normal&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&type=enhancement&max=500&col=id&col=summary&col=priority&col=status&col=type&col=owner&col=milestone&order=priority" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/q<wbr>uery?priority=normal&status=as<wbr>signed&status=new&status=reope<wbr>ned&type=enhancement&max=500&c<wbr>ol=id&col=summary&col=priority<wbr>&col=status&col=type&col=owner<wbr>&col=milestone&order=priority</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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