[Soc-coordination] Call for Projects & Mentors for Google Summer of Code 2012

[Gergely Nagy]

Stefano Zacchiroli <zack at debian.org> writes:

xx> Not sure if it'd be a good idea or not, but we've never really managed
> to collect and maintain a list of "easy hacks" that could be useful for
> Google Code-In and, more generally, to ease the access path to Debian.
>
> We've some technical support for it
> http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/GiftTag , but we never managed to
> encourage people to tag bugs and then to use the list of tagged bugs in
> any useful way. (And possibly the name "gift" is not really appropriate
> either...)
>
> Given that you're thinking anyhow to teams who might have GSoC-like
> tasks, it *might* make sense to also point them to the gift thingy and
> encourage them to tags bug accordingly.  But it could also have the
> disadvantage of diverting attention to two conflicting initiatives: GSoC
> planning and "easy hacks" tagging.
>
> I just wanted to mention this here, as a possibility, but I leave it to
> you whether it'd be a good idea to mention both things when contacting
> teams or not.

This is a good idea, perhaps it would be worth an easy GSoC project to
make it more visible: modify the BTS, the PTS and whatever else we can
think of, to show gift tagged bugs more visibly. Also writing a few
guidelines on what kind of bugs are appropriate for the tag would also
help, something a bit more elaborate than what's on the wiki at the
moment.

What do you think?

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