[Zope-dev] (SHOUT) NOTIFICATION!!!!

[Paul Everitt]

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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