Donnie Berkholz ([info]spyderous) wrote,
@ 2007-05-08 23:06:00
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Increasing contributions and interest via personal project aggregation
I just posted this to the Gentoo development list, but I thought other projects could use a similar idea so I decided to add it to my blog.

Hi all,

I'm sure I'm not the only one with a number of projects I'll never get to, but I'd really like them to happen anyway. I suggest we create some sort of page that aggregates all of these personal projects together, so anyone can browse through them and look for stuff that sounds fun.

The goal is to increase contributions from outside by giving them a ready list of projects of all sizes and difficulty levels to work on, projects that go beyond what happens at Bugday. Further, it could also help current Gentoo developers who are bored or have lost interest in what they're doing by helping them to find somewhere new to contribute.

A prototype with just my projects is at http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/proj/

Thanks for your comments!
Donnie



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an obvious addition to the list
(Anonymous)
2007-05-10 04:55 am UTC (link)
* Implement a web app where people can find and share ideas they think are cool or otherwise interesting for whatever reason.

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(Anonymous)
2007-05-10 05:57 am UTC (link)
This is a really great idea. I'm always looking for some things to help out with. In fact, I've recently been wanting to help lots of Open Source projects with the autotools stuff, especially since I went through the trouble to learn them. I've just been having a lot of trouble finding projects that need autotooling.

I'll take a look at the CCP4 project, and see if I can help. I'm no autotools expert, but maybe I can at least make it decent.

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This is a great idea.
(Anonymous)
2007-05-10 06:02 pm UTC (link)
KDE has something similar attached to their bugzilla. JJ's (Junior Jobs) make it easy for new developers to find small projects to start with that improve various projects in non-critical ways. It would be fantastic if we had something along those lines.

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See where it goes
(Anonymous)
2007-05-17 06:27 pm UTC (link)
I decided to run with this idea and see where it goes. I don't have anything I think is worth showing yet but in case anyone else is interested we should collaborate.

I'm going with REST (on Rails) because that's how I wanted to do it, and it makes perfect sense for this sort of content so that's good too.

sami.samhuri@gmail.com

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Re: See where it goes
(Anonymous)
2007-05-23 03:16 am UTC (link)
What I have so far is running at http://inspirado.samhuri.net ... it's pretty basic but I'm pleased so far. The only way to get XML right now is to manually append .xml to the URL (http://inspirado.samhuri.net/people/sjs.xml), or set the http accept header (curl -H "Accept: application/xml" -i -X GET http://inspirado.samhuri.net/people/sjs).

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Re: See where it goes
[info]spyderous
2007-05-23 05:28 pm UTC (link)
Looks pretty cool.

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