new "Help Wanted: Code" label for GitHub issues

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Philip Durbin

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Jun 25, 2017, 9:20:12 AM6/25/17
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Recently we heard[1] that the community is interested in a new GitHub issue label called "Help Wanted".

We also heard that we should start letting the community help with items that are higher priority[2] for them.

I just created a label called "Help Wanted: Code" with the idea having a namespace like this means that in the future we could add "Help Wanted" labels for non-code items like documentation or reproducing bugs or usability testing or who knows what else. Suggestions on how you think you could help are welcome! I figured I'd start with code, especially since we just made an effort[3] to improve the documentation for how to set up a dev environment.

I've only flagged 14 issues so far and I tried to pick issues that are relatively small:


(I'm somewhat reticent to ask for help with giant development tasks.)

If any of these look interesting and you want to help, please start by reading https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING.md and get in touch! As we said at the community meeting[4], we're happy to add GitHub usernames to our "read only" team so that we can assign issues to you. (We're also happy to add you simply so we can more easily @mention you in issues.)

On a related note, I'm thinking about listing the new "Help Wanted: Code" label with http://up-for-grabs.net (or similar services) to bring in even more contributors. :)

I hope this helps! Thanks for the suggestion!

Phil
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