On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 07:00:23PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 05:31 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > On 11/11/2009 10:00 PM, Chris Tyler wrote: > > > Based on the experience of the Mozilla project in using a > > > "student-project" keyword to identify potential student projects in > > > their bugzilla, I asked Dave Lawrence to add a similar keyword to our > > > bugzilla. > > > > > > Our version is "StudentProject", and it's my hope that we can use it to > > > identify tasks which would make good student projects: those which are > > > non-trivial but which can reasonably be wrapped up in a few months' > > > work, and which are not blockers or on the critical path to a release. > > > Mozilla's keyword guidelines are at > > > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Education/Projects/MozillaGuidelines -- I'll > > > write a Fedora version soon. > > > > > > Your help in adding this keyword to any projects that look appropriate > > > would be appreciated. > > > > Can you clarify how you intend to differentiate "easyfix" (which has > > existed for a long time) and "StudentProject"? > > I thought the same thing at first, but then it seems rather clear from > Chris' description, in fact: "Those which are non-trivial but which can > reasonably be wrapped up in a few months' work". The easyfix keyword is, > I believe, intended for issues which *are* trivial and would require > much less than 'a few months' work'. Precisely. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
