Here's a quickie way to boost the quality and maintainability, (and # of tasks:-)). For each module task, add an additional task to create a rich Simpletest for it. Later that might become a requirement for a module. -Bruce<br><br><b><i>Angela Byron <drupal-devel@webchick.net></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> GHOP: Google Contest. Week-long tasks (coding, documentation, or <br>otherwise) that 13-18 year olds knock out of the park. See <br>http://drupal.org/node/195913 for contest details.<br><br>Good news: These students are frickin' awesome. Check out our list of <br>completed tasks so far: <br>http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-drupal/issues/list?can=1&q=status%3AClosed <br><br><br>Bad news: We need *help* to maintain this momentum.<br><br>Current stats are available at: http://groups.drupal.org/node/7569<br><br>Python is currently kicking
everyone's ass in terms of tasks completed <br>by their students. This is directly related to the amount of focus their <br>reviewers are able to give.<br><br>We have had the following tasks have been under review for > 24 hours <br>and are *actively halting these students from taking on more tasks*, as <br>well as likely creating sour feelings towards Drupal as a project for <br>holding them back. *Reviews needed here ASAP please.*<br><br>* Performance profile Drupal 6: http://drupal.org/node/196907<br>* User experience usability report: http://drupal.org/node/197221<br>* Drupal 6 Theme: http://drupal.org/node/197227<br>* Mockups for hard-to-use pages: http://drupal.org/node/197311<br>* Port Text CAPTCHA to 6.x: http://drupal.org/node/198598<br>* Display module memory usage: http://drupal.org/node/198053<br><br>For a full list of GHOP issues that need review at any given time <br>(ideally this is always at zero), please see:
<br>http://drupal.org/project/issues/?text=GHOP&states=8<br><br>Drupal is also currently tied for *second fewest* open tasks available. <br>This means that there's a far more likely chance of a student going to a <br>project like Joomla! or MoinMoin that has a better task selection.<br><br>Please help by creating additional, high-quality tasks. Everyone has <br>"little" things they wish they had time to work on. Write them up as <br>task ideas to http://drupal.org/node/add/project-issue/ghop as a "Task <br>idea" according to the guidelines at <br>http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-drupal/wiki/HowToWriteAGoodTask. <br>Remember that tasks don't have to be just about coding (documentation, <br>translation, usability, etc. are also on topic), although coding tasks <br>_are_ popular. :)<br><br>Thanks for your attention to this. If GHOP continues to go as well as it <br>has, it looks like we'll gain some very valuable long-term contributors <br> (and
in fact, I think we already have).<br><br>-Angie<br></blockquote><br>