Angela Byron wrote:
I posted a GHOP mid-term status report on the front page of drupal.org: http://drupal.org/node/205806.
Good news: - More modules ported, including API and Comment Upload, which we need for drupal.org. - Vastly increased our unit test coverage for core, and also uncovered a critical menu bug in the process. :)
Apologies. Make that 4 critical bugs. :) http://cwgordon.com/the-power-of-drupal-simpletests-and-the-simpletest-revol...
- Several features were added to modules whose maintainers took the time to write up and mentor one or more tasks, including Workflow NG and User Points. - We still have about half of the remaining task slots available (97)
Bad news: - We still have about half of the remaining task slots available ;) - One of the criticisms from students is lack of coding tasks to choose from. With all of the coders in the Drupal community, and I'm completely stumped as to how this could possibly be the case. - We have tasks out there that have been waiting on us for a review for *almost a week*. I know people are coming back from the holidays and stuff, but this is *seriously* uncool, as it's both demoralizing to students and it prevents them from working on additional tasks.
So please help by:
1. Staying on top of task reviews by monitoring http://drupal.org/issues/tags/GHOP. I can't over-emphasize how important this is, since this is the juice that powers students' enthusiasm toward our project, and actually results in work getting done.
Specifically, the following tasks are overdue (the ones toward the top /way/ overdue) a review from someone in the community: * Add "available update" indicator to installed modules: http://drupal.org/node/197486 * Port Event module to D6: http://drupal.org/node/200693 + Port Text CAPTCHA to D6: http://drupal.org/node/198598 * Convert Bluemarine to Tableless layout: http://drupal.org/node/200685 * Drupal 6 theme: http://drupal.org/node/197224 * TinyMCE config module: http://drupal.org/node/203173
2. Reviewing and contributing additional task ideas: * Read the GHOP Task FAQ to get an idea of what we're after: http://drupal.org/node/200510#ghop-task-faq * Review existing task proposals: http://drupal.org/issues/tags/GHOP * Propose your own task ideas: http://drupal.org/node/add/project-issue/ghop
3. Hanging out in #drupal-ghop to help answer students' questions and do interim reviews with them when you're available.
Thanks a lot, and thanks SO much to the folks who stepped in after the last mail to help pick up some slack, particularly over the holidays.
-Angie