On Dec 10, 2007, at 11:11 PM, Angela Byron wrote:

Please help by creating additional, high-quality tasks.

Interested parties should read the following lists of issues would benefit the d.o infrastructure in some way, since many of them would be good GHOP tasks: http://groups.drupal.org/node/1830 http://groups.drupal.org/node/4970 http://groups.drupal.org/node/6186 If nothing else, someone could contribute by finding and writing up the best GHOP tasks from these lists. webchick and aclight have done an amazing job with this so far, but there's plenty to go around, so please pitch-in. Extra points for those who mentor/review the resulting efforts of the students. Thanks, -Derek (dww)

Perhaps we should also put together guidelines for doing a security review / code style check (maybe with the assistance of coder.module), to help us boost the quality of the contribs repository. We could also flag modules that need documentation somehow.

Do you have to be in a certain group to be able to select the type and owner of a task on code.google.com? I created task 81 but am unable to select either, or to update the task for that matter. Not having a "preview" button is a pain. Wim Quoting Angela Byron <drupal-devel@webchick.net>:

GHOP: Google Contest. Week-long tasks (coding, documentation, or otherwise) that 13-18 year olds knock out of the park. See http://drupal.org/node/195913 for contest details.

Good news: These students are frickin' awesome. Check out our list of completed tasks so far: http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-drupal/issues/list... Bad news: We need *help* to maintain this momentum.

Current stats are available at: http://groups.drupal.org/node/7569

Python is currently kicking everyone's ass in terms of tasks completed by their students. This is directly related to the amount of focus their reviewers are able to give.

We have had the following tasks have been under review for > 24 hours and are *actively halting these students from taking on more tasks*, as well as likely creating sour feelings towards Drupal as a project for holding them back. *Reviews needed here ASAP please.*

* Performance profile Drupal 6: http://drupal.org/node/196907 * User experience usability report: http://drupal.org/node/197221 * Drupal 6 Theme: http://drupal.org/node/197227 * Mockups for hard-to-use pages: http://drupal.org/node/197311 * Port Text CAPTCHA to 6.x: http://drupal.org/node/198598 * Display module memory usage: http://drupal.org/node/198053

For a full list of GHOP issues that need review at any given time (ideally this is always at zero), please see: http://drupal.org/project/issues/?text=GHOP&states=8

Drupal is also currently tied for *second fewest* open tasks available. This means that there's a far more likely chance of a student going to a project like Joomla! or MoinMoin that has a better task selection.

Please help by creating additional, high-quality tasks. Everyone has "little" things they wish they had time to work on. Write them up as task ideas to http://drupal.org/node/add/project-issue/ghop as a "Task idea" according to the guidelines at http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-drupal/wiki/HowToW.... Remember that tasks don't have to be just about coding (documentation, translation, usability, etc. are also on topic), although coding tasks _are_ popular. :)

Thanks for your attention to this. If GHOP continues to go as well as it has, it looks like we'll gain some very valuable long-term contributors (and in fact, I think we already have).

-Angie

On Dec 11, 2007 1:11 AM, Angela Byron <drupal-devel@webchick.net> wrote:

Please help by creating additional, high-quality tasks. Everyone has "little" things they wish they had time to work on. Write them up as task ideas to http://drupal.org/node/add/project-issue/ghop as a "Task idea" according to the guidelines at

http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-drupal/wiki/HowToW... . Remember that tasks don't have to be just about coding (documentation, translation, usability, etc. are also on topic), although coding tasks _are_ popular. :)

Hi Everyone I wanted to quickly follow up with an additional link to the "I'd like to help with the administration of the GHOP program! How do I start?" page that webchick created at http://groups.drupal.org/node/7360 Before creating a task on the Google issue tracker, *please* read section 2 of this page (http://groups.drupal.org/node/7360#tasks). The Google issue tracker is--how should I say it--limited in it's feature set. For example, it's not possible for anyone (even the project owners) to edit tasks once they are created. As Angie said, these students for the most part do a really great job on the tasks. The more focused and detailed the task description is, the more likely you are to get the results you're hoping for. So please be very explicit in your task description as to what you expect, how you expect it (ie. file format for non code/documentation tasks, what version of Drupal the code should be written for if it's not a porting task, etc.), and who the student can contact if they have questions (it would be great if you could include your d.o username and/or IRC nick). Finally, because most d.o users aren't following the Google issues closely, we've found that it's best if each GHOP task has a separate issue on drupal.org in the appropriate issue queue. This helps the students to get as many people looking at their work as possible, and it also helps them to gain experience in how normal tasks and issues are handled in Drupal. Please provide a link to your d.o issue in the Google issue, and also a link to the Google issue in your d.o issue. I know this is a little extra work on the part of the person who creates the task, but ultimately you're more likely to get great results this way. Again, thanks to those of you who have created issues, helped review issues, and helped to administer the issues either on d.o or the Google tracker. Please keep the ideas coming! Thanks Adam Light

Angela Byron wrote:

GHOP: Google Contest. Week-long tasks (coding, documentation, or otherwise) that 13-18 year olds knock out of the park. See http://drupal.org/node/195913 for contest details.

Good news: These students are frickin' awesome. Check out our list of completed tasks so far: http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-drupal/issues/list...

Bad news: We need *help* to maintain this momentum.

Ok, well. First, my sincere thanks to the handful of amazing people who heeded my cry for help and created some *excellent* task ideas at http://drupal.org/project/issues/ghop, as well as the team who's been helping with the ongoing GHOP administration/mentoring/reviewing/etc. With your efforts, we were able to add 5 new tasks in the past 48 hours (4 of which have since been claimed), with probably another 5 to come as soon as minor revisions are made. To the rest of you, I don't really know what else to do. I've tried asking for help on the mailing lists. I've tried asking for help on Drupal Planet. I've tried asking for help in IRC. I've tried RE-asking for help on the devel list. I've now tried asking for help on the front page of Drupal.org, as well. We have /tons/ of students who are literally chomping at the bit to work with the Drupal community, and snapping up tasks as quickly as we can make them. And we have /tons/ of stuff around here that needs doing and would make a great learning experience for a student. But yet only a tiny fraction of our community is stepping up to help join those two needs together. It's quite frustating, I have to say. :( We're now down to a whopping *8 available tasks* for students to choose from: http://opentouch.info/tmp/ghop/ghop-stats.html Plone has 70, MoinMoin has 50, and Joomla! and Plone have 35. I know where I would be focusing my energies if I were a student in this contest, and it wouldn't be with Drupal. This is a real shame. The results from the first two weeks of this program were absolutely phenomenal: http://drupal.org/node/200510 -Angie