I agree that we have to lower the bar. What Seb and I were discussing is a commitment from a small group of people to help accomplish lowering the bar. Once it's lowered, then hopefully the rate and impact of casual contributions will greatly increase. --Paul Andrew Kuchling wrote:
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:57:17PM +0000, seb bacon wrote:
What we need, as Paul suggested about zope-web, is a set of community members who are able and willing to contribute 10 hours per week. I think there are very few such people. I would love to, but I simply
I'd think the number of such people is zero, except for people who use Zope in their work and can justify time spent developing on Zope itself as being work-related. It can't be assumed that people have much time to spend on a free software project; instead you have to lower the bar, and make it easier for hit-and-run contributors. If it takes days or worse, weeks and months, to get a contribution accepted, people just won't bother.
Re: bug tracking. If Bugzilla is too much of a bear to deal with, there are simpler alternatives available, such as Roundup, Jitterbug, the SF bug tracker, and our unreleased SPLAT!.
--amk
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