The AbiWord project has something that might be useful. In their newsletters (and I suspect elsewhere) they have something called POWs, an achronym for Project Of the Week, that are basicly of the form (text after '<--' is my own added comment):
Name: 4465 <-- this is a bug nr. (not necessarily) Description: This bug contains a compilation of numerous spelling-related bugs. Interested parties can do simple work, like Q&A to see what's still there, to more complex work, like dialogue fixin' and locale conversion If you have a current Abi and some time, you, too, can help Advertisement: My spelring dilog isn nt ther Recommended Outline: Whatever's easiest for you Comments: All in all, there's something for everyone in there. System: Any and every OS. AbiVersion: Current (1.0.3, I would guess, dev and cvs releases may occur as well) Challenge level: Variable Current Heros: First week available <-- a sort of history
It might be useful to have a special type of bug of this sort just to get people started. My own problem usually is that my time is verry limited therefore I forget interresting little jobs that I might, with or without some help, be able to do.
The problem with writing these sort of bugs is that you tend to fix them yourself (I've been using this for a project I'm handing over to someone else), but if you really focus att setting the bar low and *not* doing them yourself it may really pay off.
I dunno. It's just a simple suggestion.
/ Peter Lundqvist (disjunkt)
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2003-01-07 01:59: Subject: Re: Inconsistency.
The problem is that you can't do it like that initially. Besides the fact that it would look silly to just have one SIG, you would also have to redesign the layout, structure and stuff quite often when you add new SIGs. One should preferably start with a few good ones (Web applications, System administration tools, Graphics programming, Pike core development) and make them look good and interesting. Then release and hope it grows. Though, we should probably have a SIG-master assigned for each SIG if we are to expect any resemblance of activity... Getting unprovoked activity (or even provoked one) is the hardest. There are 25 accounts that have write permission on the pike site. Essentially only mine and Johans are used.
/ Martin Nilsson (bygger parser