My earlier idea on having a Simpletest task accompany each module task is a way to double those tasks and improve quality. I know if you have almost no module tasks this does no good! <br><br>When things are bad it's often interesting to consider radical ideas. What about having the students submit tasks to a moderated queue that then gets approved/rejected.<br><br>-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;"> Angela Byron wrote:<br>> 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>Ok, well. First, my sincere thanks to the handful of amazing people who <br>heeded my cry for help and created some *excellent* task ideas at <br>http://drupal.org/project/issues/ghop, as well as the team who's been <br>helping with the ongoing GHOP administration/mentoring/reviewing/etc. <br>With your efforts, we were able to add 5 new tasks in the past 48 hours <br>(4 of which have since been claimed), with probably another 5 to come as <br>soon as minor revisions are made.<br><br>To the rest of you, I don't really know what else to do.<br><br>I've tried asking for help on the mailing lists.<br>I've tried asking for help on Drupal Planet.<br>I've tried asking for help in IRC.<br>I've tried RE-asking for help on the devel list.<br>I've now tried asking for help on the front page of
Drupal.org, as well.<br><br>We have /tons/ of students who are literally chomping at the bit to work <br>with the Drupal community, and snapping up tasks as quickly as we can <br>make them. And we have /tons/ of stuff around here that needs doing and <br>would make a great learning experience for a student. But yet only a <br>tiny fraction of our community is stepping up to help join those two <br>needs together. It's quite frustating, I have to say. :(<br><br>We're now down to a whopping *8 available tasks* for students to choose <br>from:<br><br>http://opentouch.info/tmp/ghop/ghop-stats.html<br><br>Plone has 70, MoinMoin has 50, and Joomla! and Plone have 35. I know <br>where I would be focusing my energies if I were a student in this <br>contest, and it wouldn't be with Drupal. This is a real shame. The <br>results from the first two weeks of this program were absolutely <br>phenomenal: http://drupal.org/node/200510<br><br>-Angie<br><br><br></blockquote><br>