RFC: newbies and janitors

RFC: newbies and janitors

[Darren Hart]

The Yocto Project is a complex thing, and people eager to get involved 
can have a difficult time sorting out where to start. The Linux kernel 
community put together kernelnewbies and kerneljanitors to help people 
get up to speed and provide them with manageable tasks to get them started.

I think we have (or should have) the "newbies" side of things covered 
with #yocto #poky and the website and the various manuals and 
documentation projects, but I think something like "janitors" would be 
valuable. This could be something as simple as a tag for bugzilla bugs 
appropriate for newcomers go after.

I imagine this is something we could share with OE - or perhaps OE 
already has something that serves this purpose - or could be extended to 
do so.

Thoughts?

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel

Re: RFC: newbies and janitors

[Rifenbark, Scott M]

One documentation task for October is a "Newbies" sort of guide or page or something that will help the user that is totally unfamiliar with open source development.  This is for the person that doesn't know what IRC means.  I have been doing some information gathering on that type of information.

ScottR

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Subject: [yocto] RFC: newbies and janitors

The Yocto Project is a complex thing, and people eager to get involved 
can have a difficult time sorting out where to start. The Linux kernel 
community put together kernelnewbies and kerneljanitors to help people 
get up to speed and provide them with manageable tasks to get them started.

I think we have (or should have) the "newbies" side of things covered 
with #yocto #poky and the website and the various manuals and 
documentation projects, but I think something like "janitors" would be 
valuable. This could be something as simple as a tag for bugzilla bugs 
appropriate for newcomers go after.

I imagine this is something we could share with OE - or perhaps OE 
already has something that serves this purpose - or could be extended to 
do so.

Thoughts?

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel
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Re: RFC: newbies and janitors

[Yury Bushmelev]

2011/3/28 Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>:
> The Yocto Project is a complex thing, and people eager to get involved can
> have a difficult time sorting out where to start. The Linux kernel community
> put together kernelnewbies and kerneljanitors to help people get up to speed
> and provide them with manageable tasks to get them started.
>
> I think we have (or should have) the "newbies" side of things covered with
> #yocto #poky and the website and the various manuals and documentation
> projects, but I think something like "janitors" would be valuable. This
> could be something as simple as a tag for bugzilla bugs appropriate for
> newcomers go after.
>
> I imagine this is something we could share with OE - or perhaps OE already
> has something that serves this purpose - or could be extended to do so.

We (OE) have wiki page (slightly outdated) with some janitor tasks:
http://openembedded.org/index.php/OpenEmbeddedJanitors

-- 
Yury Bushmelev

Re: RFC: newbies and janitors

[Jeff Osier-Mixon]

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I think this is an excellent initiative, Darren!

If anyone has any questions on how to get started participating, please feel
free to post them to this list or to contact me directly.

--
Jeff "Jefro" Osier-Mixon
Yocto Project Community Manager

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Re: RFC: newbies and janitors

[Darren Hart]

On 03/28/2011 04:29 PM, Yury Bushmelev wrote:
> 2011/3/28 Darren Hart<dvhart@linux.intel.com>:
>> The Yocto Project is a complex thing, and people eager to get involved can
>> have a difficult time sorting out where to start. The Linux kernel community
>> put together kernelnewbies and kerneljanitors to help people get up to speed
>> and provide them with manageable tasks to get them started.
>>
>> I think we have (or should have) the "newbies" side of things covered with
>> #yocto #poky and the website and the various manuals and documentation
>> projects, but I think something like "janitors" would be valuable. This
>> could be something as simple as a tag for bugzilla bugs appropriate for
>> newcomers go after.
>>
>> I imagine this is something we could share with OE - or perhaps OE already
>> has something that serves this purpose - or could be extended to do so.
>
> We (OE) have wiki page (slightly outdated) with some janitor tasks:
> http://openembedded.org/index.php/OpenEmbeddedJanitors

Great, this is the idea. It's a pretty sparse list, and could do with 
some fleshing out.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel