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== Draft strategy for a newly arrived Lightning hacker == | == Draft strategy for a newly arrived Lightning hacker == | ||
* set up [[Education/Learning/Irc|IRC]] client to auto-join #education, #calendar, and #maildev | * set up [[Education/Learning/Irc|IRC]] client to auto-join #education, #calendar, and #maildev | ||
* use #education as a first place to ask for help (especially on stuff not specific to Ltn or Tb | * use #education as a first place to ask for help (especially on stuff not specific to Ltn or Tb) | ||
* pull Thunderbird and Lightning from comm-central, make a build that works | * pull Thunderbird and Lightning from comm-central, make a build that works | ||
* find a few [http://bit.ly/B6Ei5 [good first bug]]s and do them | * find a few [http://bit.ly/B6Ei5 [good first bug]]s and do them | ||
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* talk to Fallen to find next project | * talk to Fallen to find next project | ||
== | == Straw-man plan to make above happen == | ||
* set | * find a reasonable set of lightning bugs (10?) to give student-project keyword | ||
* review existing [good first bug]s to ensure that they're still relevant and make sense | * review existing [good first bug]s to ensure that they're still relevant and make sense | ||
* start directing newbies to #education and humph | * start directing newbies to #education and humph | ||
* draft/publish Lightning near-term roadmap | * draft/publish Lightning near-term roadmap | ||
* draft blog post asking for help, with links to the ramp-up process above and the various buglists | * draft blog post asking for help, with links to the ramp-up process above and the various buglists | ||
* send version of blog posts to various folks who have expressed interest in the past | * send version of blog posts to various folks who have expressed interest in the past (dmose has a partial list) | ||
* Make documentation more appealing, provide landing page for new developers | |||
Latest revision as of 20:25, 14 June 2009
Draft strategy for a newly arrived Lightning hacker
- set up IRC client to auto-join #education, #calendar, and #maildev
- use #education as a first place to ask for help (especially on stuff not specific to Ltn or Tb)
- pull Thunderbird and Lightning from comm-central, make a build that works
- find a few [good first bug]s and do them
- find a bug with a student-project keyword, discuss with humph/Fallen and do it
- talk to Fallen to find next project
Straw-man plan to make above happen
- find a reasonable set of lightning bugs (10?) to give student-project keyword
- review existing [good first bug]s to ensure that they're still relevant and make sense
- start directing newbies to #education and humph
- draft/publish Lightning near-term roadmap
- draft blog post asking for help, with links to the ramp-up process above and the various buglists
- send version of blog posts to various folks who have expressed interest in the past (dmose has a partial list)
- Make documentation more appealing, provide landing page for new developers